The Federal Reserve came to the aid of insurance giant AIG, engineering an $85 billion rescue, staving off the bankruptcy and hoping to bring a measure of calm to a shellshocked global market.
We stand in awe of the centuried Redwoods of the Pacific coast and the twisted, giant Saguaros of the high desert, but compared to the Chaparral bush they are mere infants.
Here is a miraculous Narnia magic kingdom——a magic world once possessed full of spirits and talkable animals, dwarf and giant , in this world, "human" is the biological of the myth.
New York and London have been connected by a giant "telectroscope"- a optical device placed under Brooklyn Bridge in New York and another one on the Thames River in London.
Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.
“The Chudley Cannons, ” said Ron, pointing at the orange bedspread, which was emblazoned with two giant blackC’s and a speeding cannonball. “Ninth in the league.”
He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like " Children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
Capitalizing on this increased traffic, a giant economic free zone is taking shape along the canal, attracting manufacturers and suppliers from all over the world.