Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubling its index-fund offerings from three to six this year. But, Lynch says, it's wrong to assume large stocks will be in favor forever. "That's not the history of the stock market," he says. "And it won't be true the next 30 years either. Giant companies...
Last week, however, the jeans giant, known for its advertising "attitude," turned surly. Stunning its critics, Guess revealed that in the past year--just as it was fending off an organizing campaign by UNITE, the nation's largest garmentworkers' union--the company was quietly shifting about 40% of its manufacturing to Mexico and South America...
Seldom has anyone fallen from hero to humbug faster than Dr. Bruno Bettelheim. After he killed himself in 1990 at age 86, obituaries hailed Bettelheim as a giant of psychotherapy, a survivor of two Nazi prison camps (Dachau and Buchenwald) who pioneered in the treatment of emotionally troubled children. In 18 books (including Love Is Not Enough and The Uses of Enchantment) and dozens of articles and TV appearances, he was an all-knowing guru to millions on topics ranging from the meaning of fairy tales to parent-child relations...
...seems to me that the life and accomplishments of scientist Carl Sagan deserved much more than the few inches you allotted to the news of his death [MILESTONES, Dec. 30-Jan. 6]. You have trivialized the passing of this intellectual giant, who will be greatly missed by his colleagues and admirers. Shame on you! IDA J. IPE Youngstown, Ohio...
...come from upper-middle-class New England families, and they're really out of touch with what the rest of the country is thinking. Whenever I see a fast-food place in a movie, it's always some '50s-looking thing or a building with a giant chicken on it. It's so over...