Word: giant
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...members. Like tennis and golf, snowboarding has functioned with independently contracted athletes enjoying, in some cases, six-figure contracts. At competitions, snowboarders are usually adorned with various sponsors' logos. Within the Olympic system, competitors must wear officially sanctioned uniforms provided by a contracted supplier. Mark Fawcett, Canada's dominant giant-slalom racer, who draws a good portion of his income from Fila, must suspend that contract to advertise Nike, official sponsor of the Canadian team. At one point, Fawcett was so frustrated by the rule that he tried to join the New Zealand team. In the end, he decided...
...lifetime, but the University is here forever. And consequently, what the University does is not all that important. It may seem from the outside as sublimely terrifying as Niagara Falls, but we must remember that the permanent stuctures and bureaucracies that truly make up the University are but the giant rocky cliff, shifting slowly and imperceptibly over time. It is not the falls themselves but the water flowing over them that holds the power...
...giant turquoise-and-pink Jesus Christ alongside a black mural of Che Guevara. Fidel Castro's hand gently guiding Pope John Paul II's shuffling steps. Symbols of accord amid substantive disagreement. The pastoral and the political came together in Cuba last week just the way the missionary of Christian faith and the apostle of communism had planned. But as the two pursued their own agendas, each had to be disappointed that the historic visit intended as a public relations coup was upstaged in the U.S. by the Clinton sex scandal...
...course, with public opinion on trade policy, as with entitlement policy, there is a certain amount of slack. Most Americans don't follow the ins and outs of the latest Uruguay Round. As long as there's no "giant sucking sound," many Americans are more or less indifferent...
...sent to the bench as a result of CBS's acquisition of its AFC rights, had to resort to claiming rational behavior to explain coming up empty-handed. Executives at the unit of giant General Electric called the contract bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess...