Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came the quietest moment of the ceremonies, just the old sweet song of Georgia on My Mind, performed by Gladys Knight. She in turn gave way to the new, sweet, if somewhat pretentious Summertime allegory, which featured giant puppets, a riverboat and 440 butterflies, not to mention quotes from Zora Neal Hurston, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner...
...consistent thread running throughout the ceremonies was reverence for the Olympic ideal, and it became a full tapestry in the Tradition of the Games sequence. A Greek temple rose up from the field and was then shrouded in white to give it the effect of a magic lantern. Next, giant silhouettes of classical Greek athletes appeared--archers, wrestlers, javelin and discus throwers, runners--and the crowd gasped as one. It truly was a beautiful sequence, connecting the ancient with the present...
...rocket science. It requires only limited skill and technology, and the country with the lowest wage tends to get the business. That's why China sells so many sneakers to Americans, including David Clay, 42, a toolmaker who helps build humpbacked Boeing 747 aircraft in a giant hangar just north of Seattle...
...China, which caused a reduction in sales from 40,000 in 1993 to 4,700 last year. In response, General Motors recently entered talks with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. to build more than 100,000 mid-size cars a year, employing Chinese workers. Other U.S. employers such as electronic giant Motorola and computer-chip manufacturer Intel have also felt compelled to shift American jobs to less productive employees in China in order to gain a relaxation of the country's trade barriers...
...preserved outer casing of any pyramid in Egypt, perhaps because the lower half of the monument is too steep for stone robbers to scale easily. Viewed from its base, the pyramid rises so abruptly that it seems at first glance to be about to break over visitors like a giant tidal wave...