Word: mammoth
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...that thought and bring it up the next time we meet. (Plus, I’d rather get calls on my room phone, as I have the coolest number on campus—really, check it out!) In 1995, Clueless darlings Cher and Dionne called each other on their mammoth cell phones at school, only to meet up in the hallway seconds later. A nation of moviegoers laughed heartily at their silliness, only to imitate it a few years later...
...government forced cable networks to merge with terrestrial networks and smaller stations at county levels to merge with bigger entities. At the national level, it has grouped China's most valuable media assets, including China Central Television (CCTV) and the country's cable-backbone network, into the mammoth China Radio Film and Television Group and put senior party propaganda officials in charge. The goal, according to William Soileau, a lawyer at Baker MacKenzie who follows China's media, is to build "a small number of state-run media groups engaging in managed competition...
...country's No. 1-selling jeans brand. That same year, Akarlilar invested $20 million to set up Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in Cerkezkoy, a tiny hamlet in rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi...
...mammoth 322-page guide is the first comprehensive publication on resources for black students, and contains a history of blacks at the College. It has listings of professors, restaurants and hair salons, and has facetious commentary about black life at the College...
...actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported from the stage and TV, but not by actors...