Word: mammoth
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...machine comes from Wonder Pizza USA, the company with exclusive American distribution rights to this invention, already popular across Europe. These mammoth machines weigh nearly 1,200 lbs and cost $20,000—only half of one year of Harvard tuition...
...sluggish growth eroding revenues, Chirac is looking to new Finance Minister Hervé Gaymard to work some magic. Last week, Gaymard pledged tax cuts in 2006 and 2007 and vowed to sell stakes worth nearly 320 billion in state firms including nuclear-power company Areva and utility mammoth Electricité de France. That, Gaymard hopes, will stimulate economic growth that, at 2.3% in 2004, was below government estimates of 2.5%. Surprisingly, Gaymard is predicting the same for this year. "Given commodity prices like oil rising, we should count on lower growth next year, not higher," says David Naudé, senior...
...Christian Dior's couture seamstresses to stitch, Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS, 34, wed real estate mogul DONALD TRUMP, 58, in a lavish affair Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. It was a busy week of self-promotion leading up to the nuptials: Knauss showed off her mammoth wedding caparison in the February issue of Vogue, left, while her fianc?? made the rounds vaunting the new season of his reality show, The Apprentice, which he's considering turning into a Broadway musical. But when it came to broadcasting the wedding extravaganza live on commercial TV ("Three hours in prime time?" Trump said...
...safe bet, too, that Stonecipher won't be jetting to Toulouse this week to join four European leaders, over a dozen airline CEOs, scores of journalists and more than 5,000 invited guests at Airbus headquarters, where his rival, Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard, is officially unveiling the mammoth A380, which cost $12 billion to launch. The A380 is a powerful symbol of the coming-of-age of the 35-year-old Airbus, and underscores the fact that the world's two major commercial airplanemakers - Airbus and Boeing - are at each other's throats as never before. Although...
...Mets, on the other hand, have endured Cubs-like misery, fielding expensive, pathetic teams for four consecutive seasons. They have averaged just 73.5 wins per year since their last World Series berth, despite a mammoth payroll that consistently ranks near the top of the league...