Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That?s right. From Microsoft to Big Tobacco to our very own government, nothing wounds a giant more reliably than some candid internal documents ?- and this case is no different. Some of the uncovered memos attest to Justice?s knowledge that it was breaking the 1945 law; others point even further, to two sets of books: one for the payroll department and another for supervisors, who tallied up overtime hours as a measure of a lawyer?s efforts. The case will be defended by other Justice Department lawyers, lawyers who stand to get paid more if they lose...
Biography, nominated for three Emmys this year, has produced some 700 shows informed by an old-fashioned catholic approach. It assumes one united audience that will appreciate Ivan the Terrible as well as Andre the Giant. The newer trend, however, is the bio-niche. We have TNN's The Life and Times of... and CMT's CMT Showcase (country music, though Life has branched out); MTV's Biorhythm and VH1's triple threat, Where Are They Now?, Before They Were Rock Stars and the flagship Behind the Music (pop music); Lifetime's Intimate Portrait (women); CNN's Pinnacle and Movers...
Investing by yourself has its disadvantages. It is a solitary experience involving a subject--the market--that can be bizarre and irrational at times. Yet judging from the swollen ranks of practitioners, many people genuinely like it. They treat the stock market like a giant store, picking out their favorite merchandise, the Intels and the Ciscos, and buying when the market throws a periodic sale. They use weakness--the dips--to buy, and this has been the single best investment strategy for a decade...
Closing in at 42,500 m.p.h., one of the largest and most complex spacecraft ever built will pass only 725 miles from Earth Tuesday on its way to a 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, its spectacular rings and its giant moon, Titan. The ship is Cassini, and while it's an object of pride for space scientists, it's an object of fear for antinuclear activists. Weighing in at around six tons at its launch in October 1997, Cassini lacked the rocket power to fly directly out to Saturn, which is on average 800 million miles from Earth. Instead it headed...
...essentially self-satirizing genre (though it is entirely hip in its cross-references). Rather, it uses the archetypes of its time to impart a certain moral and melodramatic force to its story. Its kid hero, Hogarth, is full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother...