Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crippled by scandal and low morale isn't enough to satisfy his ambitions. His goal is to consolidate personal control over Washington's sprawling intelligence community, which consists of no fewer than 28 separate and often feuding organizations. Last week the President and the Senate gave him a giant boost toward that end. Indeed, Deutch is in the midst of one of the most impressive power grabs ever seen in Washington. At one point during last week's hearing, intelligence chairman Arlen Specter said the committee was "trying its best to strengthen the hand" of the director of Central Intelligence...
...grew up poor, lards his campaign speeches with inspirational stories about his ill-educated, hardworking father (a mechanic) and his "Mama [who] fed us values." Sanders, who taught medicine at Harvard, ran Massachusetts General Hospital, became vice chairman of Squibb Corp. and later CEO and chairman of the giant pharmaceutical company Glaxo, presents himself as a serious, concerned authority figure...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...have a snapshot of myself from the spring of ninth grade, posing next to the John Harvard statue with a giant smirk on my face. I wanted it documented on film that Harvard and I were not a good match...
...peak of the Rwandan refugee crisis nearly two years ago, the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, proudly announced "the largest product donation in Lilly's history and...the largest one-time pharmaceutical donation ever." The press release went on to say, "This is yet another example of Lilly's commitment to giving, especially in times of human tragedy. We are responding to the dire needs of the Rwandan refugees...