The last spectacular wave of growth for the big western firms came several decades ago after they were kicked out of the giant fields of the Persian Gulf.
As first Apple, then Google's Android, showed that easy access to the mobile internet was the future of phones, the giant of the industry appeared asleep at the wheel.
That will take time: even after gobbling up Champion, in the industry's biggest deal ever, International Paper, the giant of the industry, has only a meagre 6% share of the world market.
By the end of the year, two other local brokers were offering online trading, and the giant of the business, Charles Schwab, had launched its own e-trading in Hong Kong (only in American securities so far).
This is because while McClendon does have to put up 2.5% of the costs of each well drilled in order to get his stake in the well, he does not have to put up 2.5% of the billions upon billions of dollars spent to acquire the giant blocks of acreage that surround those wells.
The Spitzer team, led by Kate Su of the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the giant cloud of fine dust around the disk is very unusual.
There are rumours in Seoul that Kim Woo Choong, the boss of the giant Daewoo group and one of those pardoned by the new amnesty, acted as some sort of special envoy during a recent visit he made to the North.
In the words of one of their leaders, Christine Blowers, general secretary of the NUT, to the LRC meeting, she said she hoped it would be "the time for the sleeping giant of the trade union movement to wake up".
The PLDT transaction - dubbed the corporate deal of the century in the Philippines - involved the buyout of the phone giant by Manuel Pangilinan, executive chairman of First Pacific, the Hong Kong arm of Indonesia's Salim Group.
This would make sense if short-period comets started off in the Kuiper belt and were nudged into closer orbits around the sun by the gravity of the most distant of the giant planets, Neptune.
It will make its way slowly down The Mound, past the giant symbol of the Paralympic Games and cross Princes Street on to Hanover Street where a post-box painted gold in Sir Chris's honour stands, officials said.
As the company begins to tap into the giant reserves of the Santos Basin (in December it began production in areas of the Tupi and Iracema fields), it seems like the only way Petrobras can go is up.
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Sir James Crosby presided over the creation of the giant bank when it was formed in 2001 from the merger of the Bank of Scotland and the Halifax.
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The excitement has not died down since, with Tinaroo becoming a favourite for Tablelanders as well as Cairnsites fleeing seasonal jellyfish, the threat of giant crocs and the swelter of the lowlands.
The erection of the two giant cellulose factories on the Uruguayan side of the river dividing the two countries looked set to proceed after two court rulings in Uruguay's favour.
Leading up to this third Test of the series I hinted at the threat of the sleeping giant called Lara and, after chasing the ball to many parts of the magnificent Adelaide Oval, it is apparent my crystal ball was telling me the truth.
For one thing, there aren't enough people in the banks to deal with the giant influx of short sales so the wait can easily be months.
The Old Mostar Bridge, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and now the Mausoleums of Timbuktu.
That surely will rank as one of the most important moments in the history of government-business relations -- yet, in a sign of the times, it is almost a footnote to all the other giant events of the period.
In May 1864, Conness introduced legislation to bring Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias under the control of the state of California.
And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937.
In 1989, after a 12-year, 4-billion-mile space journey, Voyager 2 flew over the cloudtops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
Naysayers claim that the place has overextended itself, that many of its vaunted projects are real-estate scams, and that the emirate can afford to spend so wildly only because the giant stores of oil in neighbouring Abu Dhabi, the anchor-state of the United Arab Emirates, offer a guarantee against default.
Like the kebab in the window, processors could sell what they like as long as their packaging shows the factories - the snapshots of giant, quivering piles of the contents, without pictures of salads, breadcrumb coatings and barbecues.
Both companies were in the business of operating the giant oceanside ports that increasingly send and receive the massive shipments of goods that keep the new global economy running.
The news is that no one blinks at the notion of a giant company being the custodian of your memories.
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Today, as the Bartendaz visit schools and other facilities, they divide their time between spreading the positive messages of Giant Thinking and the fitness training of Bartendaz.
The treasury was run by Paul O'Neill, the former chairman of the giant manufacturing company Alcoa, and Andrew Card, Chief of Staff, was formerly a senior car industry lobbyist.
Winter's really not too bad and in the summer, there's nothing quite like putting all the windows down and catching a breeze as you roll under the canopy of giant, old oaks, passing the fabulous mansions of the Garden District.
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