Word: giant
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...biggest hits (Drunken Master, Project A, Police Story, The Armour of God) and their sequels, Chan has scooted across burning coals, eaten red-hot chili peppers, swallowed industrial alcohol. He has bounced down a hill inside a giant beach ball and leaped from a mountaintop onto a passing hot-air balloon. As weapons he has used bicycles, rickshas, chairs, plates, a hat rack, a ketchup dispenser, overhead fans and Chinese folding fans. Bad guys have depantsed him, strapped a ton of tnt to his body, doused and scalded him, set him afire, dumped him down a well, hanged him naked...
...problem is that crisis-weary Mexicans are already staggering under the twin blows of layoffs and an inflation rate that could top 30% in 1995. Nissan and Volkswagen both plan more than 1,000 job cuts this month, while entertainment giant Televisa has dismissed 1,500 employees, or 6% of its work force, since December. ``Most people prefer to buy food rather than cigarettes,'' says Consuelo Docal de Rojas, who owns a struggling candy and tobacco shop in Mexico City and rents out apartments above the store. ``People can't scrape up cash to cover even necessities.'' At the same...
...giant Boston Celtics schedule covers one wall of the bar, and a poster of Cambridge Rindge and Latin's most famous alumnus--New York Knick Patrick Ewing--graces the opposite wall...
Under Consideration Britain's Glaxo, the world's second largest drug company, announced a $14 billion takeover bid for Wellcome, another British pharmaceuticals giant and longtime rival. The offer values the Wellcome shares at 49% above their price before the Glaxo bid. The Wellcome Trust--a charitable foundation that has a 39.5% stake in the drugmaker and is Wellcome's biggest stockholder-- confirmed that it would seek court permission to sell its shares. If completed, the merger would make the new firm among the largest corporations in Britain and the biggest drug manufacturer in the world...
This was in part almost spiritual in nature. The Japanese, understandably, have always been obsessed with quakes. Once they attributed the tremors to the thrashing of a giant catfish called Namazu. In recent times Japanese have come to believe in the power of science to guard them against the catastrophic thrashing. The nation invested heavily in quake research, quakeproof engineering, quake relief. When Japanese saw the damage done in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1994, they smiled to themselves and thought, We would have fared far better. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next...