Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the most confusing event for me was the "Super G." When I first saw it, I though it was another tribute album to Notorious B.I.G., but it turns out to be a type of ski race--the super giant slalom...
...Super giant? What kind of a stupid name for an event is that? Like giant's not big enough...
...were from people harassing me to help them redesign biological weapons for their student organizations, or from people I hadn't talked to in months forwarding me lists of the top 10 Mensa pick-up lines. Damn it, I felt loved. But alas, all that has changed. Now, a giant sucking sound is apparently echoing across Harvard's servers as a growing segment of the e-mailing population gradually logs out. The ominous silence they leave in their wake can be explained in three letters...
Last week, Netscape laid off almost a tenth of its workforce in a cost-cutting action, a joint venture with industry giant Novell was canned, and the company has cut back much of its research into newer technologies, like Java. Now, Once-mighty Netscape finds itself the target of buyout rumors, as major players AOL, Sun and Oracle all consider buying the former browser champ...
...left in union coffers. Insiders say Teamsters headquarters faces large-scale layoffs within the next week or two. Those layoffs and the as-yet-unpaid bills for the government's inept efforts to clean up the union are likely to further cripple the union, which was once the giant of labor...