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...white elephants go, they didn't come much bigger than the Millennium Dome...
...Monopoly money," notes Khan. With hardly any profits to date, the company's actual valuation is all just speculation at the moment. That should become much clearer, once Facebook goes public sometime in the next year or so. One thing's for sure, however: the dotcom bubble just got bigger than ever. Get ready for another wild ride...
...harms his family in a civilized country, the police are called in to stop him. If a gang of thugs terrorizes a neighborhood, the police mount an operation to shut them down. However, if you are audacious enough to organize an even bigger gang of thugs, you can take over a whole country. Call yourself some sort of political party, and the world's media will obligingly use this title, thus helping legitimize your crimes, as most notoriously happened in Germany in the early 1930s. The governments and diplomats of the world will talk to you in the vain belief...
USAGE The phrase was coined to mock the economic inequality that some say started with Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" theory. But this is, at best, an imprecise analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...four committed players, two-star forward prospects Dario Hunt of Goldsboro, NC and Andrew Van Nest of Northfield, MA are considering suiting up for the Crimson next year.“It’s as big as it gets in terms of higher eduction; there is none bigger than Havard,” Amaker said. “The kids we’ve identified have been interested in that. Will we get them all? No, but I think we’ll have an opportunity to pique their interest—to be part of the grand floor...