Word: giant
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...Blue plans are concerned about how they will fare in Clinton's new world of giant health-care alliances and premium limitations. Smaller, for-profit insurers have no doubts: they think they will be wiped out. Their organization, the Health Insurance Association of America, has opened fire with a series of TV ads picturing a future married couple bemoaning its loss of choice -- of doctors and insurance plans -- under a Clinton-style reform. The Democratic National Committee shot back on Saturday with a TV ad implying that the insurers are "scared" they can no longer get away with "denying people...
...some time scientists have been moving toward the view that the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred after a giant comet or meteor struck the earth, filling the air with dust that shut out the sunlight for months. Now the theory is looking even better: a crater off the coast of Yucatan, known to be the right age (65 million years old) but thought to be too small to have been made by such a cosmic collision, has been discovered to be 185 miles across, not 110 as previously believed. The heavenly object that carved it out was plenty big enough...
...brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly oxymoronic turn: a municipal code for discouraging tastefulness, a quarter-billion dollars spent to conjure a trashy Damon Runyon spirit. The Bizarro-world rules call for, among other things, giant loudspeakers blasting onto the street, commercial signs noticeably out of alignment with their neighbors and virtually no size limit for billboards. "The bigger and noisier," says Stern, "the better...
...someone says, as giant columns begin to crumble around her. "The whole place is a gigantic vault...
...glance the proposed nuptials of Viacom Inc. and Paramount Communications look like a marriage made in heaven. The merged company, to be called Paramount Viacom, would unite Paramount's film and television studios with Viacom's cable systems and its networks such as MTV and Nickelodeon. Result: a global giant primed to compete with heavyweights like Time Warner, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in everything from making movies to building an interactive electronic highway into the home. "It's absolutely the best fit" of all the recent media mergers, says Frank Mancuso, former president...