Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since the 1970s, they have increasingly become just giant warehouses where you pack convicts to suffer. Look around me in this place. It's a graveyard, a human wasteland of old men -- most of them just sitting around waiting to die. Of the 5,200 inmates here, 3,800 are lifers or serving sentences so long they will never get out. America has embraced vengeance as its criminal-justice philosophy. People don't want solutions to crime, they only want to feel good. That is what politicians are doing, they're making people feel secure. They offer them a platter...
...Santa Fe, they will tell you that "the engine of our growth for the next several years" is going to be intermodal traffic, which means the use of truck trailers and special containers that can be easily exchanged between rail and truck chassis. Santa Fe and the giant trucking concern of J.B. Hunt Transport, in Lowell, Arkansas, pioneered the modern strategic alliances between trains and trucks, which used to be mortal enemies in the marketplace. Increased rail efficiency, rising truck costs and as much as 100% driver turnover a year in trucking drove the two industries together. Santa Fe carries...
...other comets, Swift-Tuttle sheds debris consisting largely of conglomerations of ice and dust, most of it boiled from the comet when it is in the vicinity of the sun. This material remains in orbit and gradually disperses along the comet's entire path, in effect forming a giant debris- laden tube in space. Each August when the earth passes through that tube it encounters bits of debris, or meteoroids, which hurtle into the atmosphere at 130,000 m.p.h. and, then called meteors or shooting stars, are incinerated in streaks of light...
From there Gardini masterminded Ferruzzi-Montedison's 1989 joint venture with ENI, which made him a global giant -- and began his downfall. From the start, there were rumors that kickbacks had been paid to political parties in return for approving the deal. Gardini soon found himself in conflict with Cagliari, ENI's ambitious chief. Each man controlled 40% of Enimont, but the Ferruzzi boss tried to tip the balance by having friends purchase a majority of the outstanding 20% stock. In the end Cagliari prevailed, and in November 1990 ENI bought out Gardini's stake at an apparently politically sanctioned...
...holder of the key to such a vast market, STAR TV has been the object of an extended bidding war among giant international media companies. Last week a winner emerged: Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which acquired nearly two-thirds of the fast-growing, money-losing satellite television service for $525 million. In making the buy, Murdoch beat out Britain's Pearson PLC as well as Americans Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting, which were also rumored to be interested in STAR...