Word: mammothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidency saw the creation of an entirely new graduate school--the Kennedy School of Government, the inception of a mammoth endowment management firm--Harvard Management Company, the creation of a new layer of bureacracy in the central administration and a revolution in fundraising...
...ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades and squalid re-education camps of the Hanoi regime. It embraces chaste Asian weddings and bawdy Yankee beauty contests, a crooning anthem to a glistening American automobile and an austere hymn to a mammoth statue of Ho Chi Minh...
...COLOSSAL, overwhelming, mammoth size of Harvard's library system is a well-documented fact. Tour guides comment on it every day. Eleven million volumes overall. Five miles of bookshelves in Widener alone. In other words...
...mammoth slick that oozed out of the Exxon Valdez tanker into Alaska's Prince William Sound two years ago may have been tough on otters and seagulls, but it was black gold for the legal profession. The 1989 disaster generated more than 300 lawsuits. Last week the largest was settled barely a month before it was due to go to trial, as Exxon reached an agreement with Alaska and the U.S. The cost: a guilty plea to three criminal charges that the company negligently discharged crude oil into navigable waters and killed migratory wildlife, and fines that may eventually total...
...groups--the CRT and the Watershed Association--are taking legal action principally to block Scheme Z, the highly controversial design for a mammoth 11-story, 16-lane highway interchange over the Charles River in East Cambridge...