Word: giant
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Mara also says McGraw Hill, the New York-based publishing giant, owed Harvard some of the money now controlled by the state treasury. Bill Farley, associate general counsel for McGraw Hill, says he had no information on the case and could not respond to the issue. He suggests that Mara may have erred in naming his company...
...three-day exhibition will also include matches with grandmasters open to the public for a tee, as well as a few matches on a giant chess...
...designer of the giant chess set. Dr. Michael chess to runs program promoting chess to inner-city children, a branch of which is run by Phillips Brooks House...
...three options reducing the cost of the space station by at least half over the next four years, NASA uncharacteristically but bravely admitted it couldn't be done and came back with choices costing from $12 billion to $13 billion, ranging from a glorified shuttle hitching post to a giant can with solar-panel wings. In choosing the former option, which resembles the original Freedom, Clinton satisfied the aerospace industry and its supporters in Congress. He also placated Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency, which have been suckered into spending billions of their own on the space station...
...public's eye, the space station has tainted all of science with its bloated budget. Without it, there would probably be no category of research called "Big Science," with its misleading connotations of power and bureaucracy. Nothing has suffered more from this guilt by association than the giant superconducting supercollider particle accelerator, which has the misfortune to be in Texas, also home of the Johnson Space Center, a major space-station player. Some members of Congress have decided that having both projects is too much of a good thing for the Lone Star State. Three weeks ago, the House...