Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sugar-trading company; ING, a huge Dutch bank; and other members of a consortium that lent some $300 million to the Castro government in 1995. The loan collateral: sugar grown or milled on properties that allegedly belonged to Cubans who are now American citizens. A similar target: BAT, the giant British tobacco firm...
Creating an environment where this type of achievement can thrive is not the work of giant funding projects or cutthroat competition; it is the doing of remarkable individuals in small gestures. Harvard College is full of some of the most successful people in this regard. They are role models for the type of person I would like to be: someone whom others respect and admire, not for anything extrinsic, but for the quality of his work and his compassion and kindness to others. Someone who is firm in his beliefs and values and who conveys them not by preaching...
...those small-putts-for-the-players, giant-drives-for-Harvard-golf days came in late April, when the Crimson took first place at the Massachusetts State Championships. It was Harvard's first-ever victory in a tournament, and it established the team as the best in the state...
...University began building a new facility in 1946 for the sole purpose of holding a giant calculator, which measured some 50 feet in length...
...addition to containing the giant calculator, the building was two stories high and contained several lecture halls and a laboratory...