Word: giant
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...heat drove smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much of the gas and light dust , farther out was gathered up into the so-called gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The rest was blown by solar heat and wind to the outskirts, where it presumably congealed into chunks of ice and dust. (Rocky Pluto is an anomaly, and many astronomers believe it isn't a planet at all but a giant comet or asteroid flung...
...irony is that the rest of the movie effectively give the lie to Roberts' proclamation. It's a paean to the '60s and an indictment of the '80s. It's a tribute to idealistic caring and muckraking investigative reporting and a giant dis to Wall Street, greed and image control...
Even the much ballyhooed T-shirts have proved to be a disappointment to some. One resident, who requested anonymity, compares Nathans's attempt to dub Garden St. "29 G" to poultry giant Kentucky Fried Chicken's bid to remake itself...
...DONE IT FOR YEARS. GENERAL ELECTRIC began doing it two weeks ago. Now General Motors is offering its own high-powered credit card to boost sales of its products and grab a share of the $485 billion market for plastic money. The auto giant said holders of its new GM MasterCard would earn 5% rebates on purchases made with the card, up to a maximum of $500 a year or $3,500 over seven years. Card-holders could apply the rebates toward the lease or purchase of new GM cars and trucks -- except for the hot-selling Saturn, which...
...dangers can outweigh the benefits. "Pollution problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...