Word: giant
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...chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said FIGHT CRIME. SHOOT BACK.) But he found ardent support among the pro-lifers, term-limit advocates, and gun owners, angry at Brooks' vote for the crime bill. And the giant fell: Brooks won only 46% of the vote...
Huddled in classrooms at MIT, about 200 students and professionals from across the nation engaged this weekend in a giant role playing simulation to debate the pressing issues of human genetics...
...sounds at first like another cruel tale from the world of corporate layoffs. Young IBM personnel specialist, 36, loses his job last July in cutbacks at the troubled computer giant. In dismay over leaving IBM -- the company where both his parents spent their careers -- young man plunges into the harsh job market. But there the miraculous happens: after a flurry of interviews, he is hired by Electronic Payment Services, a start-up Delaware company that processes credit-card transactions, for substantially more than his old salary. "I never knew how marketable I was," says Peter Dychkewich, the hero of this...
...financial services have become more complex, companies have created new jobs requiring new skills. Fidelity Investments, the mutual-fund giant with more than $200 billion under management, has been opening as many as four new investment centers a year and bringing in about 100 people to staff them. Many are recent college graduates. The newcomers learn to field virtually any question about Fidelity products and can double salaries that start at about $20,000 within four years...
...feats of science since a crew of astronauts heroically corrected the instrument's blurred vision last December. The orbiting observatory has snapped dramatic pictures & of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashing into Jupiter, discovered hundreds of what seem to be solar systems in the making, and provided proof that giant black holes lurk in the cores of galaxies. But all this was just a warm-up for the Hubble's most eagerly awaited mission: to gauge the age of the universe. The question of how old the heavens are is not only fascinating in its own right but also bears...