"Instead of a giant, purpose-built plant to supply the global market, you could imagine smaller, regionalised plants," says Mr Sofen.
The visionary architect Buckminster Fuller's famous concept of a "geodesic dome," a giant all-purpose shelter, drew heavily on bubble imagery.
The argument is simple and sound-bite ready: In the years before the crisis, greedy bankers used their political muscle to grow from small, specialized banks into giant, all-purpose financial institutions.
Harrison begins by oversimplifying and misstating his opponents' arguments (and goes downhill from there), characterizing their position as follows: "In the years before the crisis, greedy bankers used their political muscle to grow from small, specialized banks into giant, all-purpose financial institutions.
As recently as Dec. 21, in a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Goodell wrote that "despite Vermonters' affection for the two teams," Vermont "is not — and never has been — a 'home market' of either the Patriots or the Giants for purposes of our cable simulcast rules".
Unless alien archaeology really is unimaginably alien, both of these giant structures, whose purpose is not immediately obvious, will at once be labelled "ritual structures".
Saunders has so far unearthed few clues about the giant enclosure's purpose.
What had once been just a film for its own sake was now a part of a larger Matrix universe a cog in a giant machine whose purpose was to replicate and expand upon itself like Agent Smith, until audiences understood every tiny aspect of the world the Wachowskis had dreamed up.
Background and purpose Giant cell tumors (GCTs) of bone rarely affect the pelvis.
East against the Giants with renewed purpose and results.
Expect frenetic speculation about which messaging apps will get bought up next, by which tech giants for what purpose.
