Word: mammoth
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...would have thought that Time Warner (parent company of Time Inc., which publishes TIME) would be on its best behavior while awaiting regulatory approval for its mammoth merger with America Online. But in its effort to win an arm-wrestling match with Disney, TW displayed the attributes of some of its prize properties: the discretion of Jenny Jones, the gentleness of Tony Soprano...
Even though DePodesta considers himself "easily the junior member" of the A's organization, make no mistake: his post is one of both great influence and mammoth responsibility. The duties of an assistant GM vary by organization, but DePodesta's job description overlaps with General Manager Billy Beane's in many areas. The 27-year-old plays a prominent role in the execution of trades, free-agent signings, and the negotiations behind both...
...itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world to sing in off-key counterpoint. To their minds, the IMF and the World Bank are tyrannical choirmasters with steel batons and a tin ear for cultural differences. They finance mammoth industrial projects that sweep up hundreds of workers from the countryside, decimating small farms and villages while swelling urban slums. They bottle up small streams into huge lakes contained behind gigantic dams, and they steer the contracts for the dams' construction to American and European companies...
...Bald-headed mammoth football player Isaiah Kacyvenski '00 was the 25th pick of the fourth round, and 119th overall, in the NFL draft and will be playing for the Seattle Seahawks next year. Harvard's all-time leading tackler, a three-time All-Ivy First Teamer and the first player to start all 40 games of a Crimson football career watched the proceedings for about...
Kerasiotes will be replaced by Andrew S. Natsios, Cellucci's former administration and finance secretary. Natsios is a budget hawk; he has been responsible for developing and implementing the state's spending plans over the past several years. If anyone is prepared to take over as mammoth a project as the Big Dig, it is Natsios...