Word: giant
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...warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information...
...Motors Corp. is attempting to reinvent the wheel. In the 1920s, its chairman and creator, Alfred P. Sloan, decreed, "General Motors will be known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...
Before joining Middlebury, Mayer worked for 12 years at Seilers/Sodexho Corp., a food-contract management giant based in Waltham, Mass., where Mayer served as regional manager for New England, directing 18 accounts worth $18 million. Prior to that job, he worked at Servomation Corp., a now-defunct Stoneham, Mass., food-service manager...
...mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That was the case in Mbuji-Mayi, which the rebels claimed Friday. The next day, after meeting with Kabila, diamond giant De Beers announced that rebels were now guarding its properties in the town. Indeed, Kabila's promise of security for foreign operations could bring Zaire back to life. But will Kabila's mines enrich the nation, or just bring a repeat of Mobutu's kleptocratic rule? "This rebellion is financed...
PARIS: Bowing to boycott threats from American anti-abortion groups, European pharmaceutical giant Hoechst transferred non-U.S. patent rights to the abortion pill RU-486 to one of the doctors who invented it. Although Edouard Sakiz, who headed Roussel Uclaf, the company that lead the development of RU-486 before it was acquired by Hoechst, will market the drug worldwide through a new company, he said he will not do business in the U.S. Once the drug wins approval, it will be distributed by The Population Council, a New York-based non-profit that received the U.S. patent from...