Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store (8 Mt. Auburn St.) is huge and seems to have everything. It's the kind of store you have to browse in to find anything, but it is also the kind of store you want to browse in. It calls to mind the old bookstore at 18 Charing Cross Road...
...adviser, assigned the name Space to its project. Citibank, for its part, stands to make $350 million in fees for putting together Paramount's war chest. At the same time, the bank manages 1.5 million shares of Time stock for its clients, on which they stand to make a huge profit if the deal goes through...
...than to hopes of restoring U.S. competitiveness in the 1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans may be an exciting spectacle, it can waste huge amounts of time and money that might better be used to improve products at home and compete with firms abroad...
...pipeline explosion in the southern Ural mountains. Some three hours before the explosion, technicians apparently noticed a dip in pressure along one section of the pipeline. But instead of searching for a leak, they turned up the gas flow to get the pressure back to normal, allowing huge quantities of propane, butane and other highly flammable gasses to escape and form an atmospheric "lake." Fatefully, two passenger trains on the famed TransSiberian Railway were passing each other when the gases, ignited probably by a spark or a discarded cigarette, detonated with the force of a ten-kiloton bomb (the atomic...
...last winter, fans reportedly paid $6 to get into theaters where the 90-sec. trailer was being shown, then left before the main feature. The market is already clogged with Batman products -- including miniature Batmobiles, Batwings, sunshades, earrings, cloisonne pins, backpacks and boxer shorts -- as part of a huge merchandising campaign...