Word: mammothly
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Widener Library:1. Mammoth library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...Thunder and Die Hard 2) opened in five weeks -- overloading even a male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth marketing campaigns. That's why this summer, except for the behemoth sequels, looks to be the most pacific in recent movie history. The moguls would rather crank out a succession of $12 million teen-targeted comedies and pray that one or two will hit the mark...
...working out repayment plans. But a national debate has now sprung up over whether the country would be better off if sick firms were allowed to die. Last year nearly 21,000 firms filed Chapter 11 petitions, the most since 1986. More significant, many of the new cases are mammoth, involving such familiar names as Macy's, TWA and Orion Pictures. While few large companies entered Chapter 11 before the mid-1980s, more than a dozen with assets exceeding $5 billion have taken refuge there in the past three years...
CATERPILLAR'S 12,600 STRIKING WORKERS IN PEOria, Ill., must have felt last week as if one of the company's mammoth earthmovers had just rolled over them. Despite the United Auto Workers' $800 million war chest (which could have provided up to $60,000 in benefits for every family on the picket line), the five-month-long siege suddenly collapsed. The union leadership failed to gain a single demand on wage and medical-care issues. The employees had to wait to be summoned back to work, while the company considered eliminating more than a thousand jobs. Many U.A.W. members...
...world of telescope making. Not since the 1934 casting of Mount Palomar's 5-m mirror -- a record size at the time -- has there been more innovation or competition to push the edge of possibility. In the clear air above Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the Keck I Telescope's mammoth 10-m mirror, built of 36 separate segments, is nearing final assembly -- a 10-month process was completed last week. Four years from now it will be joined by the Keck II, an equally monstrous twin. By then, the European Southern Observatory hopes to have positioned the first of four...