Word: giant
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...pickups and cars in Livingston, Montana, a bowlegged-cowboy town of slightly more than 6,000 notable for a giant rock formation allegedly resembling a sleeping Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward...
...Mayor Terry Overmyer of Fremont, Ohio, who has been battling the Postal Service for two years in hopes of quieting the giant sucking sound of outlying megamalls and superstores. "They wanted to move our post office out by the Wal-Mart. We offered them whole city blocks downtown, but they just ignored...
...documents were released by the White House in response to a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is considering the nomination of Anthony Lake to be the new CIA director. The giant pile of data did achieve its ostensible purpose: it showed that Lake was not a party to the unseemly fund-raising operation. But in making the case for Lake, the White House damaged itself in the larger battle to rise above the fund-raising scandals that are swamping it. Press secretary Mike McCurry conceded that at times the NSC's "good, sound counsel" was ignored, a reflection...
Even as AT&T was slathering the airwaves with promises of a 15[cents]-a-minute rate last week, the Wall Street Journal caught the phone giant offering 10[cents]-a-minute rates to persnickety callers who phoned AT&T and asked for the best possible deal. AT&T--which declared itself profoundly "unembarrassed" by the revelations--said the 10[cents] rate would be offered only on a "case by case basis." And although AT&T won't say what it takes to qualify, they did hint that bigger bills were more likely to get bigger discounts. "Our effort...
...painted them, and barons employed packs of schnauzers to patrol the castle and catch rats, which explains why Holloway carries around a furry little squeaky toy in his pocket. Sometimes called the dog with the human brain, the standard schnauzer is not to be confused with his toy and giant cousins. Pa's history dates back to Italy, where he was bred by Gabrio Del Torre, who saw the dog's potential and shipped him to the best schnauzer handler he could find in the U.S., Doug Holloway. "Parla English, Italian," Del Torre said...