Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beanie Baby counter at Toys "R" Us? The enthusiasm for dressing as Christmas trees brought back painful memories of the Alzheimer's facility where my father spent his final days in a perpetual countdown to the holiday du jour. THE NEXT HOLIDAY IS ARBOR DAY (or whatever), a giant poster near the nursing station announced, AND IT'S ONLY 15 DAYS AWAY...
...Microsoft, of course, saw it precisely the other way in a pugnaciously-worded appeal, filed Tuesday, in which the Redmond giant's lawyers essentially claim that Justice's legal crusade is spoiling everything for America's computer-lovers...
...fact the two-legged city wolves are on the prowl. What diplomats and journalists routinely call economic reform in Russia is now more reminiscent of wolves tearing at the carcass of a giant beast. The new banking magnates--oligarchs as they are often known--are fighting over the remains of the Soviet Union. There are very rich pickings: oil fields, natural gas, precious minerals and strategic metals. The people who end up with the largest hunks of the carcass will be powerful figures indeed, both here and abroad...
...first hint cropped up late last year: billboards displaying a giant photograph of lightning bolts across a dark sky and the enigmatic message YOU CAN'T HEAR IT COMING, BUT IT IS. Within weeks, it came. In a blaze of publicity, General Motors launched the nation's first mass-market electric car in modern times--a whisper-quiet, aerodynamic techno-marvel christened EV1. Thousands signed up to test-drive the spiffy two-seater, engineered with the help of rocket scientists to the tune of some half a billion dollars. So far, it is available only in California and Arizona...
...this is not a giant, if slightly melted, version of a Hershey's Kiss. It's the venue for figure skating and short-track speed skating, dubbed White Ring because of its shape as seen from...