Word: giant
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There's a battle in the Clinton Administration over how to deal with French oil giant TOTAL and its $2 billion natural-gas deal with Iran. National Security Council and White House political aides want to crack down on Total, using the law Congress passed last year requiring sanctions for foreign companies doing business with Iran. But European experts at the State Department prefer to waive the penalties if France promises to restrict other dealings with the rogue nation. They fear the dispute could escalate into a major trade war with Europe and Asia. "There's absolute unanimity...
...Previte writes in the liner notes to Philharmonic Hall that "The sense that it's impossible for us, and no one with any feel would want it any other way." For Miles, it was the journey that mattered. As these albums testify, during the early '70s Miles was taking giant steps indeed. He was, once again, miles ahead...
...centerpiece of the museum is the Walk Through Computer 2000, a two-story working Pentium computer with a giant keyboard, trackball and monitor. It's an eerie experience to actually maneuver through a computer like the one you have in your dorm room, down to the pickup-truck sized 3Com card inside...
...suing Microsoft for false advertising, while Ralph Nader becomes the latest to launch an investigation into the software giant's business practices (Netly News...
...Georg Solti [MILESTONES, Sept. 15] was a giant of the music world, one of the greatest conducting talents of all time and a man who devoted his life to studying and developing a deep understanding of the masterpieces and their creators. He presented these works to us, the public, in his own inimitable fashion so we could experience some of the emotions and the supernatural insight of genius. But who remains willing to sit, without the help of a single visual effect, and actually listen for more than five minutes to music that could transport him to uncharted intellectual...