Why you look like a pioneer preparing to cross the Great Plains.'" But from the 1990s the giant affairs, and dresses, came back, ever more elaborate and fancy.
This city is like one giant love affair -- you come here and you fall in love with it, it's like a marriage.
Those events never ended up being just a couple of guys sharing a handle of Popov vodka, but what used to be giant, weekly affairs with big themes and popular food trucks ended up being scaled back to once-monthly meetings with chicken skewers and spinach dip.
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the internet giant's tax affairs, saying the firm was playing a key role in the UK's high-tech growth.
The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, will meet the Prime Minister next week, just days after a Commons select committee mauled the tech giant over its tax affairs.
"If an organic item were available in good quality and quantity, we would integrate it into our regular produce department," said Odonna Matthews, vice president for consumer affairs for Giant Food Inc. in Landover, Md., a chain of 150 stores.
A major reason, said Odonna Mathews, vice president of consumer affairs at Giant Food, is what the trade calls "deal merchandise". Those are goods that a manufacturer is eager to sell for one reason or another, typically overproduction.
Amazon is facing a landmark court ruling in the US that could prise open its obscure tax structure in Luxembourg, after a high-stakes legal battle that has shed unprecedented light on the technology giant's labyrinthine tax affairs.
But the fact that hackers have again apparently infiltrated Sony's systems will do nothing to restore public faith that the Japanese technology giant has its security affairs in order.
John Strausbaugh: New York's giant impact on American affairs was no secret at the time.
