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Brand awareness remains crucial in the money-transfer market, where transactions are up in part because of increased migration but also because more of the cash sent by the workers of the world is starting to travel through formal channels. Even gargantuan Western Union gets only a 12% slice of the total remittance market because so many people still send money by mailing a check or getting someone to hand-deliver the money. Every month in Los Angeles, German, 33, sends $100 to his sister in Nicaragua via Western Union or, whenever possible, by a courier who charges a couple...
Detroit automakers are jumping on the bandwagon, fitting concept cars like this year's Dodge Avenger with gargantuan 20-in. wheels. But carmakers know that if the wheels are too big, they can screw up the power steering or transmission. Hence the industry's slow shift to 17-in. rims. Over the past two years, shipments to automakers of 17-in. tires have risen 9%, while shipments of 15-inchers have fallen nearly 12%. Even BMW's pint-size Mini Cooper comes with optional 17-in. wheels...
...newly-bedewed verdure of Cambridge in spring is overtaken by exhaust from station wagons and SUVs each year, many students have secretly hoped for a better day in the future—a day when gargantuan vehicles belching carbon monoxide are supplanted by the quiet, healthy hum of bicycle wheels...
...parts, but well worth a look. Behind it, in the Place Dupuy, a new Saturday marché créatif sprouted last year, with so far about a dozen artists and artisans offering their handmade wares. Sunday morning is the biggest market feast of all. First there is the gargantuan flea market encircling the St. Sernin basilica. Then there's the hectic, everything-goes market sprawling around the Place St. Aubin - fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and shellfish, cheese, bread and pastries, herbs and spices, jellies and jams. If you need shampoo, a crate of oysters...
Since Jan. 18, thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...