Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truck sales are hotter than ever and show little signs of cooling off soon. In the past seven years, sales of giant SUVs have rocketed from 50,000 to nearly 160,000. Trucks and SUVs represent 50% of all the vehicles sold in the U.S. In 1997, Ford alone tallied $60 billion in revenues from sales of popular SUVs such as the Explorer, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator and other kinds of trucks...
...them. So making sales calls for his new catering business turned out to be particularly hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches -- steaming vegetables seasoned with shrimps and fiery pepper sauce -- then explain how he'd lost his job at the giant conglomerate. Often people just slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew what was behind it. In status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap -- catering is near the bottom. "Running...
...welcome by dragging out this style for over 400 pages. The reader becomes bewildered by the barrage of foreign names of the characters, especially in the last story where relationships amongst them are never clearly explicated. Even more puzzling is the reason for stringing the three novels in one giant volume in the first place. No solid connection among the stories is ever made, despite the obvious presence of an Indian protagonist. Perhaps the three novels are a study in contrasts between two different families, cities, and countries. Unfortunately, the delineation never crystallizes. Coupled with the fact that the stories...
...software industry's biggest trade group has endorsed the breakup of Microsoft if the software giant loses its antitrust case. The 40-page report sent to government lawyers comes despite Microsoft's active membership in the Software and Information Industry Association (formerly -- and better known as -- Software Publishers Association...
...good. Delicious, inexpensive Malaysian cuisine in Chinatown. Plates piled with beef rendang or giant coconut shrimp and festive glasses of ABC, a drink of shaved ice and red beans. please every diner in the room...