Largely unknown groups rub elbows with mainstream giants (Foster the People? Stephen Malkmus? Are you there?), amounting to a hot and humid orgy of singing, moshing, drinking and soaking up the southern sun.
California poultry giant Foster Farms has joined the flock of meat companies eschewing the use of antibiotics, pledging to eliminate all those used to combat infection in humans.
For example, United Press International, the onetime giant that fostered the careers of Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas, has withered to a bare-bones operation in Washington and has been controlled by a company owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, since 2000.
The rise of giant corporations fostered accelerated exploitation of workers in the interests of profit by the wealthy few.
The American Giants, led by Foster as player, manager, and owner, played at South Side Park and became one of the greatest teams in the history of black baseball, winning Negro league championships in 1914, 1915, and 1917.
This giant illusion is fostered by major U.S. news media that are allergic to discussing deadly U.S. interventions in the context of Nuremberg principles, Geneva Conventions protecting prisoners of war and noncombatants, and the United Nations Charter, especially articles 41 and 42 on the initiation of armed force.
It's also something that requires creativity, which isn't fostered in giant factories with guards guiding people through crowded doorways and a central kitchen that roasts three tons of pork and thirteen tons of rice a day.
While the age of trustbusting is long gone, Democrats could portray Enron as symbolizing the evils of a new corporate economy fostered by giant stock purchases and multinational companies.
Driving the increase in poaching is keen demand from Asian nations like Vietnam and China, where rapid economic growth has left many people better off, fostering a giant market for animal and plant products prized for their medicinal value or status-symbol appeal.
Moreover, we are no longer standing directly in the cultural shadow of psychoanalysis, in which mothers appeared as giants, responsible for fostering healthy sexuality and robust individuation in their children or for warping the whole process irrevocably.
