Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secretly owned banks were the National Bank of Georgia, which Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi tycoon and B.C.C.I. front man, acquired from Carter Administration official Bert Lance, and Miami's CenTrust Savings. Pharaon used B.C.C.I. funds to become a partner of financier David Paul, who built CenTrust into a giant house of cards before it collapsed last year at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1.7 billion...
...each of the corporate top dogs had to go through the same learning curve. Contrary to what most people think, Auletta notes, a network is neither a giant production studio nor a grid of stations but simply "an office building, where executives package programs they do not own and sell them to advertisers and local stations they do not control." Trying to deal with these stations, advertisers and program producers (not to mention the ever nosy press) startled, annoyed and ultimately chastened the corporate newcomers...
Observed a Moscow-based correspondent: "Coverage like this has become a giant fraud -- everybody pretending and writing as if they actually saw something. It's really just institutionalized plagiarism...
Superchurches are unapologetic about passing the offering plate, and giant incomes make possible multimillion-dollar facilities that are another drawing card. The Texas-size Second Baptist Church of Houston, for instance, features a movie theater, weight rooms and saunas, a TV production center and outdoor and indoor gardens. The Family Life Center at Arizona's North Phoenix Baptist Church has its own gym, roller rink and racquetball courts...
...intercontinental bombers and missiles carrying 6,000 thermonuclear charges. That is still a superfluity of death and destruction, but it is also roughly a 30% reduction in the overall level of the arsenals and, more important, a 50% cut in the Soviet weapons that most threaten the U.S.: giant intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with multiple warheads that could be used to carry out a first strike...