Word: colossuses
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Another enticement dangled by Memphis is the offer of funds for restoration. For Ramesses, the center reconstructed a 47-ton colossus of Ramesses the Great at a cost of $125,000, then barged it over from Memphis, Egypt. For Splendors, it has not only restored many of the objects, but has also given seed money to establish a conservation laboratory at the Topkapi Palace Museum...
...rare undergraduate who truly cares about the powers that run this colossus of higher education. Stiff-necked bureaucratic types, after all, have little to say about whether you have a keg party in the Yard or dump you roommate into a "psycho-single." (That's left to the stiff-necked proctors and tutors...
That is why I had such great hopes for Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new home of the American League's Baltimore Orioles and the most ballyhooed new landmark since the Colossus at Rhodes...
Today there is no safety net -- no majority of compulsive moviegoers -- to catch the weaker films. Every star, every studio, stands like a colossus on a fault line. There are also no plantation workers among actors, only independent operatives. If Schwarzenegger wants $12 million a picture, he'll get it -- and he'll earn it. But a few other stars, who deserve a lot less money than Arnold, will be paid only a little less. The B-minus picture boys get A-plus cash...
Fighting back is a decidedly unaccustomed role for IBM. Other companies have to do it all the time, of course, but the Colossus of Armonk (N.Y.) is different. Overwhelmingly dominant in its industry for decades, IBM is used to swatting aside small rivals -- and they're all small by comparison -- with a brush of its hand. Now things have changed...