In northern Lebanon, in the town of Becharre near the famous cedar tree forests, the local specialty is kibbeh mishwiyeh: fresh minced lamb rolled up with bulgur wheat to form giant meatballs the size of tennis balls, stuffed with caramelized onions and pine nuts and grilled until crunchy on the outside.
His supposed offenses related to arcane accounting issues involving sums of money that, in a giant AIG's size, were comparatively small.
These Adelies dive up to 400 feet, dodging giant ice floes the size of cars which bash around in the surf.
But while it made dealing and investing easier, it also paved the way for the creation of giant financial institutions, whose size has meant their health is critical to the wellbeing of the general economy.
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" Or "consider the fabled giant squid with eyes the size of soccer balls and trailing tentacles that can reach lengths of 60 feet.... No person as far as we know has ever seen a giant squid alive.
Facebook executives know their ambitions and size make it a giant target.
Winters played Mearth, Mork's son, who -- having hatched from a giant egg -- was the size of an adult but had the mind of a child.
Given that Citibank's footprint is about one-fifth the size of some other giant banks, analysts said it had little choice but to scale back in areas where it lacks market share.
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This could shrink the size and cost of building giant accelerators, which produce sub-atomic particles.
Congress set up the giant Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about the size of South Carolina, in 1980.
John Brzenk, perhaps the greatest arm wrestler of all time, is famous for pinning opponents twice his size his nickname is the Giant Crusher.
Even in their limited role, CIOs are usually ineffectual, partly because of rebellious employees and partly because giant industries have been created to circumvent one-size-fits-all computing and networking solutions.
But sheer size has failed to protect the drug giant from slowing sales growth, as generic competition eats away at some of its biggest drugs and new research fails to deliver new medicines as quickly as many hoped.
It was a vastly scaled-down take on a scrapped project to make forklift-size robotic floor scrubbers for household-cleaner giant S.C.
On the plus side, the ability to directly detect light from a planet closer to the size of Earth than a Jupiter-sized gas giant is a positive step forward in our ability to learn more about planets that might be habitable.
The petrochemical and plastics giant, which had dreams of growing to chaebol-like dimensions in terms of size and breadth, abandoned its ambitious expansion plan and said it would stop paying interest and principal on its loans.
But building a giant battery using dry-cell technology would require thousands of individual cells - about the size of a soft drinks can - to be strung together in a massive installation.
It is not something that fits with the giant corporate mentality that tends to grow more and more restrictive and ossified as companies increase in size.
And even though the restaurant business is relatively paltry relative to the size of the debt, and relatively risky, the fact that it also owns this giant oil field means when push comes to shove it can pay off the debt by turning on the oil spigot.
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If Pfizer boss JeffreyKindlerJeffrey Kindler can keep his ship stable, it will go a long way toward proving that Pfizer's great size, flexibility and newfound willingness to change may keep things from getting worse for the drug giant.
If Pfizer boss Jeffrey Kindler can keep his ship stable, it will go a long way toward proving that Pfizer's great size, flexibility and newfound willingness to change may keep things from getting worse for the drug giant.
It is only every 2, 000 years or so that an object the size of a football field descends to earth and causes significant damage, according to NASA. Giant asteroids that crash to earth such as the one that most likely extinguished the dinosaurs tend to occur on the scale of millions of years.
In the color and milling about, my eye picks out a basketball-size cloud of pure white puffiness across the floor, a vision that turns out to be a giant Angora rabbit named Alice.
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