Word: giant
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...Philippine Senate seemed set this week to vote against the treaty signed last July that extended U.S. access to its giant naval base at Subic Bay for 10 years. Rejection of the agreement will bring to an end more than 90 years of American military presence in the Philippines...
...guidelines, OSHA has begun adopting them wholesale -- though critics complain it too often approves rules drawn up by the industries it is supposed to supervise. Scannell has also brought eye- catching fines against offenders, including $3.5 million against Arco Chemical and a record $4 million against Phillips Petroleum, after giant explosions at their plants left 40 dead. The agency "is more effective today than it has been in any time in its history," insists Alan McMillan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for occupational safety and health...
...this bear finally staggers, then stretches out on the ice like a giant sheep dog. The helicopter sets down, and biologist Gerald Garner advances, kicking the bear in the behind to make sure it is immobilized. A swivel of its head and a flashing of teeth warn Garner that there is plenty of defiance left in this 272-kg (600-lb.) carnivore. With a syringe, he injects more drug. At last the head droops, and Garner can proceed. Around the bear's neck he fastens a vinyl collar containing a computer that will send data to a satellite, allowing scientists...
...heroes featured in traditional baseball cards, but the 36 hardball players immortalized in the Savings & Loan Scandal Trading Cards are best known not for their hits or their runs but for their headline-grabbing errors. Presidential favorite son Neil Bush, political puppet master Charles Keating and junk-bond giant Michael Milken are among the reluctant celebrities honored in the latest offering from California's Eclipse Enterprises, whose previous politically risque parodies also feature palm-size portraits of front-page phenoms -- such as Neil Bush's dad in Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards...
That is also true for the draconian cutbacks at giant manufacturing firms. IBM has pared 32,000 jobs from its payroll since 1985 and plans to reduce its work force by another 17,000 this year. The latest moves will trim IBM's work force to some 356,000 as Big Blue struggles to regain a share of the worldwide computer market that has slipped from 35% a decade ago to less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler...