Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While the speed of the deal took analysts by surprise, the disparity didn't. Daimler, after all, is an automotive colossus, the second largest carmaker in Europe. "German auto pros will tell you directly -- Daimler is buying Chrysler," reports TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany is buying the U.S., and they've got deep pockets...
Hulking and knob-muscled, Depardieu farts, belches and wenches his way through his role as the aging musketeer Porthos. He pronounces the word nipple as "neeple." He is a figure of masculinity not so much past its prime as grotesque and overripened, the kind of colossus Rodin might have come up with if he worked in old Camembert instead of bronze. In short, Depardieu is just the kind of male to frighten an adolescent girl off the gender altogether. In this filmic universe he is the anti...
...center of the war's vast changes was the military--transformed by the nation into a colossus and, in turn, transforming the nation into a superpower. From an Army of 1.7 million and a Navy of 160,000 on the eve of Pearl Harbor, America's armed forces grew to 12.3 million men and women...
...antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...
REDMOND: Microsoft isn't saying U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made the wrong decision. It's just that nobody asked him for one. The software colossus lodged an appeal Monday against Jackson's preliminary injunction ? on the grounds that the judge overstepped his authority...