Word: mammoths
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...sure the strings which control the bells can be arranged so that the bells are easier to ring, said Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck. At the first class on Tuesday, klappermeister-in-training Brian Kennedy ’09 focused on ringing the largest bell, a 13-ton mammoth nicknamed “Mother Earth.” During yesterday’s practice, Ogryzkov noticed that student Molly J. Hester ’08 used earplugs to dampen the bellowing sounds from the 700-pound clapper of “Mother Earth.” Since Ogryzkov does...
...Harvard men’s tennis team proved that emphatically this weekend, opening the Ivy League season with two mammoth victories at home over Columbia and Cornell...
...Billions of dollars - and Iraq's future - are at stake. Virtually all the revenues Iraq has to rebuild its shattered economy will come from its mammoth energy deposits - some of the world's biggest untapped reserves - of about 115 billion barrels of oil and about 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In addition, Iraq's major creditors have made clear they expect a working oil industry, as a precondition for forgiving billions of dollars in Iraqi debt incurred largely by Saddam Hussein's wars against Iran and Kuwait and by his mega-splurging at home...
...richest at a blistering pace. It has a booming economy, escalating incomes and 10.8 million people--more than New York City. Wooing the newly wealthy of Chengdu is a top priority for consumer companies from Coca-Cola to General Motors to Christian Dior. Chengdu is only one of several mammoth metropolises--like Chongqing, Wuhan and Xi'an--experiencing similar booms of investment, wages and jobs...
...faith seems well placed. Like its skyline, London's profile as a financial hub is rising. While the U.S.'s mammoth $13 trillion economy provides a bigger market in domestic shares listed on Wall Street's two major exchanges - nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (n.y.s.e.) - Britain's more modest economy (it's the fifth largest in the world) has forced London to transform itself into a more internationally minded financial center to stay competitive. That transformation has become so successful lately that it has led to widespread speculation over whether London or New York City will become...