Word: leviathan
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...suicidal leviathan was a relatively rare sperm whale. Such whales have the biggest brains on the planet...
...purge of both Politburo and lower-level cadres testifies to the clout of Solidarity. From a ragtag bunch of shipyard workers and dissidents, it has grown into a labor leviathan, with an estimated 10 million members (out of 17.3 million employed) in 54 chapters around the country. When a strike loomed in Warsaw, no less than Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski offered to dispatch a government helicopter to Gdansk to pick up Lech Walesa. Solidarity has even acquired a modicum of official respectability. To raise funds, it has sponsored a benefit performance at the National Opera House and auctions...
...Congress gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate the fledgling trucking business. But over the years, as the infant grew into a $108 billion-a-year leviathan, the agency produced some startlingly ludicrous anomalies. Agricultural haulers, for example, could carry milk but not yogurt or ice cream; truckers could move grain from farm to market but could not take animal feed back in their empty trucks. Reason: both milk and grain were exempt from ICC regulation as unprocessed commodities, whereas yogurt, ice cream and animal feed were regulated...
...computer; during heart surgery; in Abington, Pa. The Ohio-born physicist was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed in 1950. But Sperry lost its early lead in computers to IBM, and ENIAC...
...still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge portion of the leviathan and a Platonic affair with Sarah, daughter of Tovim. On this lousy planet, he's liable to sell you a condominium at half price...