And the financial markets blew a giant raspberry.
It is home to many rare and endangered species of flora and fauna, among them the giant otter and the giant anteater.
The action seems to take place on a giant ocean liner amid a terrifying storm.
From east and west, travelers dart across these prairies into the huge horizons and through cornfields that go on forever; giant skies, giant clouds, an eternal nearly featureless sameness.
The sand around him was strewn with fossil shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and the bones of giant catfish.
Because of their heft, the clusters act like giant cosmic lenses, magnifying, distorting and bending any light that passes through them - an effect known as gravitational lensing.
Private spaceflight took one giant step forward this week when the Tycho Brahe craft lifted off atop the HEAT-1X rocket engine Friday (pictured) from a platform in the Baltic Sea.
And I am literally sitting, in a burnt-orange alcove designed to frame a giant plant pot, because this is the one nook of the pool where I can be up to my chin in the water and also not be in the sun.
They looked like giant asparagus spears.
You are a giant of words and dwarf of action.
Members of the group stand atop the stump of a giant redwood tree.
No one can be expected to find tiny little Hong Kong in that giant expanse, at least not without GPS.
Join biologist Zeb Hogan of the National Geographic Society's Megafishes Project as he explores the threats facing the giant sturgeon and the efforts underway to save it.
A middle-class conservative young Englishman, Epstein brought a powerful natural skill to the management of the band and eventually secured a recording contract for them with the giant EMI Records.
I had to turn away and as I did so a great big giant tear rolled its way out of my eye, down the side of my nose and landed - plop - right there on the toecap of one of my black suede shoes.
The giant panda is native to China.
There are two giant pandas in the zoo.
In an unrelated recent experiment with insect body sizes, scientists discovered that a more oxygen-rich atmosphere supports super-giant insects, so this could be the case with giant mammals too.
Before it lay a smoking iron-mine in a field of uprooted trees, which the giant miners had torn up in their search for iron nuggets.
His giant mastiff came bounding out, looked between the marble pilings of the rail, and cocked his head to one side. He seemed to grin. He was looking right at us.
Newton was an intellectual giant.
Then another giant gently supported my back with her huge hand.
Retailing for $5 million, the oddly egg-shaped Trilobis seems halfway between a giant yacht and a floating home.
Russian fishermen on the Volga River catch around 20% of the world's black caviar, tearing it out of the bellies of giant sturgeon, a species as old as the dinosaurs.
See that giant peak at the end?
A giant panda can weigh as much as150 kg, when fully grown.
Scientists once imagined galaxies forming by a sort of monolithic collapse, in which a giant cloud of gas suddenly fell inward.
In places on Crationic edges, giant carbonate platforms may develop.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory caught sight of the initial explosive flare emanating from a giant group of sunspots.
It's a giant pumpkin.
The UN report came in the same week the European oil giant admitted liability for the first time under British jurisdiction for two big leaks in the delta.
The giant ape has been recreated digitally and is more life-like and terrifying than ever.
Then a giant incinerator in space would burn the garbage.
A small pebble that is rolled down an icy hill can accumulate into a giant snowball towards the end.
AT&T's $48 billion purchase of cable-TV giant TCI and its joint venture with Time Warner give it new wires into the home, through which it plans to provide not only TV but high-speed modem and local phone service to compete with the Baby Bells.
The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
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