The nature of these giant customers also informs the nature of the business of these big software companies.
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Recent, grievous depreciation of stock values imperils the viability of one or more of even these giant concerns.
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These giant government-sponsored entities (GSEs) pursued two decades of reckless growth with strong encouragement from the Clinton administration and congressional leaders.
Think about all these giant financial institutions aligning themselves with stadiums and concert venues without any alignment of values.
Technology also plays a large role in helping these giant churches communicate with members and keep track of them.
Europe appears to be a small player in these giant, long-term global trends.
But these giant breakaway icebergs may in fact be signaling the continent's meltdown.
In order not to lose the loyalty of his original retailers, Ridings won't sell his best fans at these giant stores.
The giants of the Internet--Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Amazon--plus fast-moving Chinese upstarts like Baidu and TenCent, are building more of these giant centers.
It will be interesting to see how these giant bets turn out.
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Who else but these giant pools of fast-growing capital could have moved so quickly to commit vast resources to financial giants in need?
The first of these giant carriers was created in 2008 when Delta Air Lines bought Northwest, creating what was then the world's largest airline.
Marine remotely operated vehicles have captured photos of these giant crabs on the Antarctic Slope, where underwater land starts to rise up to the southernmost continent.
These giant unsigned works, produced collectively, may have marked the first time in Arab history that the visual arts had a major impact on public consciousness.
So integrated are these giant institutions today that they have erased almost all the proud family names that were once synonymous with the stockbroking and investment-banking businesses.
This means that whatever your image is of these giant corporations as great technical innovators, the closest analogy to IBM, SAP and Oracle is not Apple or Intel.
Which raises the question, if the basics aren't there, why on earth do these giant cities continue to act as a magnet for such vast numbers of people?
Thanks to ecotourism, 700 of these giant beasts are alive today, wedged into small parks surrounded by subsistence farms in one of the most populated parts of Africa.
High oil prices have helped neither of these giant weaklings.
Part of the reason for continued government control of major enterprises in China is fear of instability that would be caused by massive layoffs if these giant firms were to go bankrupt.
Because we are standing on the shoulders of these giant ideas, these giant principles, we think we have the potential to create something that is massive and valuable to the people who use it.
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What all of these giant companies are trying to do is foster a continued spirit of innovation and risk-taking in a fast-moving environment where any mistake can leave a business floundering to catch up.
Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings and fore-and-after bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship .
These giant debts triggered the crash of 2008 because creditors refused to roll over short-term loans to banks, and caused the simultaneous recession because banks stopped lending, and have brought about our current economic malaise because our ability to spend and invest is hobbled by the imperative of repaying what we owe.
These are giant machines which employ powerful magnets to guide subatomic particles through long underground tunnels.
These include giant state funds like CALPERS and CALSTRS. As trustees, pension fund managers truly are fiduciaries.
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In the 2000s, these sorts of giant companies shrank their U.S. workforces by 2.9 million, while upping their overseas employment rosters by 2.4 million.
But at the same time, what we started to understand about the formation process, we thought there would indeed be a lot of these orbits of giant planets spiraling inward after they're born and things that give you, for instance, hot Jupiters.
These days, insurance giant Allstate ( ALL) belongs to the unforgiven group.
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