And it flies, which is a giant achievement for such a tiny machine.
It is a giant achievement for this film that you don't laugh out loud.
Inevitably, it's against this giant achievement that any new movie version of Nicholas Nickleby will be measured, and just as inevitably, found wanting, though not by too much.
I think the most pressing problem we have for our educators and for our country is the giant achievement gap.
Ms Angelique Kidjo, Special UNICEF ambassador, believes that the Cape Town Measles Declaration indicates a clear path towards a giant achievement in children's health.
That is more than one-third larger than that of international technology leaders like Siemens and NEC, and more than twice that of General Electric and Bell Laboratories, the two corporate research giants whose achievements have been most often compared with those of I.B.M., according to Robert Buderi, a research expert who has visited all of the companies.
She lists the battles that grassroots organisations have won since that first climate justice summit in 2000: the U'was battle to rid themselves of oil giant Oxy; the achievements of the Ogoni people against Shell; Costa Rica's decision to declare the country an oil-free zone and the Bolivian government's decision to give greater rights to its indigenous peoples.
In presenting the award, Dr. George E. Ehrlich, a vice president at Ciba-Geigy, the pharmaceutical giant, hailed the achievement as "a truly magnificent piece of medical detective work".
Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, put the case for business as well as anyone when he said that the computer-services giant's greatest achievement was not its $2 billion in annual revenue but the fact that it had taught his fellow Indians to "redefine the possible".Enfranchising, not enslavingA third defence is that business helps maintain political pluralism.
Gaining a concession of this magnitude, particularly from an oil giant, is a noteworthy achievement.
