It has been held aloft for years by giant booms in house prices and infrastructure spending.
He grew up near Los Angeles, his family's house literally underneath the giant white letter sign atop the Hollywood hills.
With 500 shards of pottery alone to be washed, catalogued and interpreted, Ms Charlton is still in the midst of completing a "giant jigsaw puzzle" about the house's history.
Other targets included retail giant Amazon.com, electronic auction house eBay, discount retailer Buy.com and CNN Interactive, all hit Tuesday, and the portal Yahoo!
The big exception, of course, is Finnish phone giant Nokia, which has bet its smartphone house on the Microsoft software.
It's the giant shade garden that lines a hillside behind my house.
The buzz is now all about how best to obscure that she's a carpetbagger, and an especially giant one since she lives famously in a famous house in another city.
Since reaching critical mass was impossible through in-house marketing, DBC reached out to brokerage giant, Merrill Lynch, for distribution.
This modern urban zone is comprised of glass and steel skyscrapers, a giant shopping mall, convention centre and office parks that house Fortune 500 corporate offices and global hotel chains.
But it must be galling to know that after he spent nearly five vain years entangled with the French bureaucracy, Paris granted permission to Arnault to build a cultural complex to house the collection owned by his luxury goods giant, LVMH Group.
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Since Josh Bolten took over as chief of staff, the White House has seen the appointment of a Wall Street giant, Hank Paulson, to run the Treasury, the arrival of a slick media man, Tony Snow, to run public relations, and advances in Iraq.
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The giant Mizuho financial group, for instance, which brings together the house banks of three keiretsu (corporate groups), contains plenty of affiliated life insurers and non-life companies, whose fate is still uncertain.
Under the Basel system, regulators ordained - for example - that banks could lend more relative to their capital if they were providing mortgages to house buyers than they could if they were lending to a giant multinational company: regulators deemed it was less risky for a bank to provide you with a mortgage than to lend to Tesco.
This year, retail giant Best Buy confirmed that it sold autorun virus-infected digital picture frames under its in-house brand, Insignia.
The search giant opened its Campus London coworking space one year ago and in that time has come to permanently house over 100 fledgling companies and hosted more than 850 events for 60, 000 guests, according to the company.
Always fearful of trees falling on the house, we were spectators to the macabre dance of the surrounding woods, swaying like a giant mosh pit.
" He also hints at something that Microsoft is working on: "The ultimate pervasive display...is a kind of a magic window, potentially as big as a wall in your house, which would allow people from different locations to interact as if standing on opposite sides of a giant pane of glass.
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