giantism

Measured simply by unit cost, there may not be economies of scale--or very significant ones, anyway--in the latest turn to giantism. But giant factories are well-suited to the needs of the giant retailers which now dominate world supply chains.

Firms have, moreover, entered an era of giantism. When I joined the largest law firm in Chicago, it had fifty-three lawyers with fewer than a dozen more in a Washington branch.

From the explosive release of energy in this medium, Cade billows into a crude giantism, gains the primal force of archetype; and through the carnivalesque collapse of Chronicle realism, his philosophic contradictions become ludic, rather than ludicrous, naturalized into familiar shows of hilarity.

The 1904 socialist novel, The Food of the Gods, imagined a world in the hands of scientific managers producing strong, large beings through "boomfood." Although its 1965 film version Village of the Giants adopted that premise, it reached the opposite conclusion saying such giantism was bad, in its apparent timely appeal to the youth culture of the day.

New York, says the report, needs to shake its preoccupation with Manhattan and "giantism"--its signature economic development strategy of multimillion-dollar tax incentive packages to induce (i.e., bribe) large corporations not to relocate to the suburbs.

Overgrowth of the bones and tissues can also occur, causing giantism of toes, hands and feet.

(18.) See, e.g., William Satire, On Media Giantism, N.Y.

It is almost axiomatic that, under present insurance trends, giantism among your corporate customers will lead them into the formation of various corporate forms for self-insurance.

Inheritance and linkage relationships of genes conditioning hullossness, multiflorous spikelet, and giantism in oat (Avena sativa L.) Can.

'Today we suffer from an almost universal idolatry of giantism,' E.

Last year, the $181.6 billion AOL-Time Warner merger suggested that the creeping giantism is continuing.