Word: mammothly
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Although MCI has thrived on its status as underdog to mammoth AT&T, that shoe may no longer fit. MCI shook up the telecommunications industry last week--and just about everyone else too--by acknowledging it was in talks to merge with giant British Telecom. The deal, expected to be announced over this past weekend, is likely to be worth about $22 billion...
They still call it big blue, but maybe not for long. Back when IBM acquired the moniker, blue referred to the signature color of its computers, and big described their size. Called mainframes, the mammoth computers were as massive as locomotives and just as powerful when it came to processing data. Big Blue once held more than 80% of the market in its iron grip...
...votes and spent five months appealing--all the way to the state's highest court--for a new election. He lost. This time he criticizes incumbent Sam Gejdenson for opposing NAFTA, and has spoken out against land annexation by Native Americans in the Second District--home to the mammoth Foxwoods gambling casino...
After three years of sitting through such mammoth sections, where "discussion" consists of little more than a graduate student playing traffic cop among the sea of raised hands, I am outraged that Harvard has not done more to reduce section size...
Historic turning points in social policy are not always obvious when they occur. Certainly Franklin D. Roosevelt did not foresee that some provisions of the Social Security Act he signed in 1935 would burgeon over the next 61 years into a mammoth federally financed and regulated welfare program. Last week, though, the equally historic nature of the decision facing Bill Clinton was clear not just to the White House but the whole nation. So the President turned his deliberations over a radical overhaul of F.D.R.'s welfare system into a solemn little drama...