Word: giant
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...merger of Beth Israel Hospital and Pathways Health Network, the parent company of Deaconess Hospital, would create the area's second giant hospital conglomerate, to be named the Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center...
...Phillip Areeda was a giant of the Harvard faculty and an embodiment of its principles," Breyer said. "He was an example of intelligence, integrity, honesty, dedication to work and dedication to principle...
...Kleiner Perkins partners invested nearly $5 million in Netscape before it went public in return for stock now worth some $590 million. Some venture capitalists have even launched their own high-tech companies to ensure getting in on the gold rush. Kleiner Perkins joined forces with cable-TV giant TeleCommunications last year to create a firm called @Home; it plans to bring the Internet and its World Wide Web--along with programs like local news shows--to home computers via cable-TV wires at 500 times the speed of signals over conventional telephone lines. That could enable companies like Walt...
...lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive and continuous transition, bursting at the seams with high spirits, misery and spectacle...
...evidence comes from collisions between subatomic protons and antiprotons inside the giant Tevatron accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. The type of particle debris that spews out of such collisions tells scientists what the original particles were made of. That's how quarks were discovered in the first place...