Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle scene in the first act, when the Christmas tree grows to a height of 40 feet, and the furniture grows in proportion, reducing Clara to the real-life perspective of a mouse. The battle scene also throws in plenty of laugh-provoking props, including pieces of cheese and giant forks and knives wielded by very hungry mice, and ups the kiddie appeal even more with children dressed not only as adorable dolls and toy soldiers but even as baby mice, smiling and marching with remarkable poise amidst all the flying missiles...
...Grim Oracle for Tech Stocks Lingering Asian flu leaves software giant Oracle looking positively pallid: the firm lost a third of its value today. Is it the first of many victims...
...left Virginia and the Carolinas because they opposed slavery, Wilmington remains a farming town, not a tourist mecca or fashionably quaint bedroom community. Corn has always been king here--an hour southwest of Columbus, an hour northeast of Cincinnati, 45 minutes southeast of Dayton--but now the overnight-shipping giant Airborne Express shares the crown. In 1980 Airborne turned a decommissioned Air Force base on the outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington High School graduates had to leave to find...
...thinks, is an advantage in international negotiations. Foreign buyers, she says, "open up more to a company like us." One reason: "They like the feeling that the ceo comes calling. [They know] the total company is behind her. A CEO is better than any vice president" of a multinational giant...
...Trade Under Fire Online trading was the lone darling of that frenzied October selloff. Now cyberbroker giant E*Trade is named in a class action suit--for slow service. See Money Daily...