Word: giant
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...result is supposed to be a web, a giant linking of volumes of text, video and audio clips, but in practice it turns out to be more like a haystack: a huge mess in which it is next to impossible to find even one needle...
Where does the computer business fit in? The problem is that it never did. Why not is hard to say: the rapidity of change and obsolescence of products in the business may well be better mastered by a nimble, specialized company than by one that becomes part of a giant like...
...bold-faced characters. Based on Harr's fly-on-the-wall reporting, A Civil Action (Random House; 500 pages; $25) chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia...
Which they couldn't. Eventually the judge let Beatrice off the hook--though post-trial reports from the federal Environmental Protection Agency supported the plaintiffs' claim against the food giant. Schlichtmann then settled with Grace for $8 million, not enough to cover his firm's bankrupting debts or get back his repossessed Porsche...
...plans' ambition, the absence of hard numbers continues to loom over Republicans like a giant, baleful asterisk. Democrats maintain that when the Congressional Budget Office adds the figures in, they will fall far short of the magic, budget-balancing $270 billion. Critics are especially scornful of Gingrich's claim that $70 billion would be generated merely from seniors voluntarily joining HMOS...