Word: mammothly
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...wasn't just that the image was fuzzy, which it was. And it wasn't just that it sparkled with static, which it did. It was that the mammoth Mir station, the putative target in this orbital skeet shoot, was all but invisible. The screen was filled with an image of a mottled Earth rolling below the station, while a tiny, pixilated smudge--Mir itself--vanished and reappeared as it flew from the white clouds to the black oceans and back again. Tsibliyev, however, saw even this small target as a good target. With little hesitation, he engaged one joystick...
...song EP Please Do Not Disturb reflects a myriad of changes for the singer-songwriter. After eight years on the North Carolina independent label Mammoth (though her last two full-length releases were distributed by industry giant Atlantic), Hatfield has chosen a tiny Hoboken indie, Bar/None Records, to put out her latest material. This release comes at a time of conflict for the artist. Though recording and mixing for her upcoming full-length, God's Foot, has been complete for months, the album is stuck in limbo, caught in a bitter copyright war between Mammoth and Atlantic...
Baseball conventional wisdom says that the Yankees-Mariners series saved the game, that it took the bad taste of a strike still bitterly remembered out of the fans' mouths. Indeed, those five gritty games rekindled the spark that greed and intransigence had almost extinguished. We revived our passion for mammoth home runs, for blown saves and tenth-inning comebacks...
...Squirrel Brand candy company as well: sales of the Nut Zipper bar have risen dramatically and continue to rise as the band gains fame. Speaking of the interaction between the band and the company, Cole said, "We have a really good, organic relationship. They load us up with mammoth amounts [of the candy], and we come back to visit the store whenever we have time...
Burger King, long the kid brother to mammoth McDonald's, is teaching its rival a lesson in marketing this month: When it comes to fast food, keep it simple. BK's new Big King, an enormous double cheeseburger launched Labor Day weekend as a rival to the Big Mac, has sold at nearly twice the rate the company expected--about 3 million a day--and stores in Dallas, Miami and elsewhere are selling out. One downtown Chicago outlet upped its order from 2,000 Big King patties the first week to 5,000 last week, and manager Lolita Aldana says...