Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...string of accidents began in a dress rehearsal last Tuesday as Chaffin slid down a giant slide that was part of the set. Most cast members descended the slide during the show, using their hands or feet to slow the fall...
...sick than when they came, quoting passages from his second inaugural address and describing in near mythic terms his intellect, candor and vision. "There is a twinkle in his eye," gushes Iowa state representative Chuck Larson, who led the draft movement in his early-caucus state. "He's a giant walking onto this playing field...
...giant fault hidden beneath downtown Los Angeles could cause highly destructive earthquakes, according to a recent discovery by one Harvard researcher and a colleague from California...
Formed just 10 years ago in a blockbuster $25 billion deal, tobacco giant RJR Nabisco is letting go of its international tobacco holdings and -- perhaps more significant -- is splitting up its food and tobacco divisions at home. Japan Tobacco Inc. is set to buy RJR's international tobacco business for $8 billion. But it's the stateside activity that's raising more eyebrows: Analysts say that by splitting its domestic tobacco division and Nabisco food group into two separate entities, the company will ostensibly create a new stock that could remain impervious to market reactions over future tobacco suits. This...
...their own catering joints. The definition of what's respectable in South Korea has changed fast since economic collapse punched a hole in the Korean Dream. When the country was vaulting to economic success, parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at giant chaebol, or conglomerates, like Samsung. A year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund has crushed all that. A bright horizon of lifetime jobs and seemingly nonstop growth has suddenly dimmed. In its place: soaring unemployment, a more competitive role in the global economy...