Word: giant
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...wider world, East Timor is a geopolitical footnote, a mere half of an island that became a short-lived nation, born in fratricidal guerrilla war and eventually swallowed by its giant neighbor Indonesia. For 21 years, despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating...
...anyone breathe life into Sony Corp.'s supine movie studios? After serial firings and flashy flops like last summer's The Cable Guy, Sony called in a new rescue team last week. The Japanese electronics giant hired United Artists' president John Calley as president and chief operating officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which includes the Columbia and TriStar studios, and reassigned executive Jeff Sagansky to be Calley's co-president. For the first time, a Japanese will join the studios' management team: Masayuki Nozoe, a Sony executive with a marketing background, will become executive vice president of the entertainment division...
...made $280 million last year. Murdoch, who plans to spend more than $200 million on his new venture, sees not only money to be made but, equally important, the prestige of finally adding a news component to his U.S. television empire. Both domestically and overseas, no media giant can afford to stay out of the news competition...
...alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from the air like "a giant phallus...
DECATUR, Illinois: Archer Daniels Midland agreed to plead guilty Monday to two criminal price-fixing charges and will pay $100 million in fines. The agribusiness giant had been the target of a four-year long federal investigation into price-fixing in the sale of lysine, a feed supplement for livestock, and citric acid, which is used in soft drinks and detergents. In exchange for the plea agreement, ADM gains immunity against charges of alleged collusion in the sale of high-fructose corn syrup, according to reports the Wall Street Journal. The corn-syrup case was thought to be the most...