Word: mammoth
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...campus with its own elevator and staircase places it near the top of our list—but it’s still in the Quad.Winthrop: ‘The Palatial Penthouse Palace’The fifth floor of Winthrop’s C-entryway boasts this mammoth suite, home to seven seniors each year. With fantastically insulated walls and prime views of the courtyard on one side and the Charles River on the other, the suite’s long hallways host everything from dance parties to beer bottle bowling. Switzerland native Alexandre N. Maurice...
...luxury now. Why pull a new shirt off the store rack when you can snatch one out of the closet for free? Food, however, is not discretionary. Everyone has to eat, and more consumers want to dine at home to shave expenses. And there's a certain merchandising mammoth fulfilling that crucial grocer's role for consumers much better than Target. (See pictures of stores that are no more...
...affluent, even though their numbers are dwindling. The model competes with the large sedans from BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus. Hyundai seems to have dropped a nice vehicle into each of the major slots in the U.S. car market. It sells a nifty entry-level coupe and has a mammoth minivan called the Entourage. It markets SUVs and small sedans. They don't have any more or less cheap plastic trim in their interiors than a Honda. They are simply serviceable cars and trucks that probably won't break down...
...This was a major lapse of security," cricket legend turned politician Imran Khan tells TIME. "Having guaranteed the Sri Lankan team security, they failed to provide them even with the type of security given to a government minister. This could have been a mammoth tragedy. If the grenades hit them inside the bus, it could have blown up the whole team. And astonishingly, how were they allowed to get away...
...freshman is lucky enough to get a lot of action in his first year at college—but on the Harvard men’s basketball team, the novices are seeing a lot of playing time. Six first-years, who represent half of the team, inherited the mammoth task of supporting a squad plagued by injury. This weekend, there are only eight healthy players on the roster—not an unusual circumstance for the Crimson this season—and Harvard continues to juggle around the health of the upperclassmen. “We knew coming into...