Word: colossus
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Exchange, who came in as interim chairman. Though Haack describes Lockheed as "a colossus to try to get your arms around," he helped to pare long-term bank debt from $595 million to $425 million. During his tenure, a special review committee of outside directors drafted a severe code of ethical conduct that bars any illegal or off-the-books payments...
Time has mercifully left many places untouched, including the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, which seems virtually unchanged from the days when it was a medieval cultural center. A center of commerce in the centuries before Christ, Rhodes once housed one of the seven wonders of the world, the magnificent Colossus, which fell in an earthquake in the third century...
...stopping point for European Crusaders, until it was taken from the Byzantine Empire in 1309 by the Christian Knights of St. John, who needed a new base after their ignominious rout from Jerusalem. The Knights refortified the island, building a huge bastion on the site of the Colossus, and withstood sieges by the Egyptians and Turks, finally surrendering in 1522 to a vastly larger Ottoman Turkish force...
This winter Nicklaus took his time emerging from hibernation, as he missed the cut in the Hawaian Open and finished well back in the other events. The five-stroke win was the Bear's 61st PGA victory, which ties him on the all-time list with "the little colossus" Ben Hogan, behind Sam Snead...
From the Monroe Doctrine through John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, U.S. policy toward Latin America has been based on the assumption of a "special relationship" with the region. For their part, Latin Americans have often resented the paternalistic hegemony of "the Colossus of the North." Almost as irritating has been the U.S. habit of ignoring the Southern Hemisphere except in times of crisis. Last week the independent but influential Commission on U.S.-Latin American Relations issued a trenchant appeal for change in U.S. policy, "not because of hidden dangers, but because of latent opportunities...