Think of Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and the coal companies as gigantic entities that don't need clean water, or food, and don't care much if you do (as you can see from the filthy wreckage in their extraction zones and their spin against the science of our survival).
Hewlett-Packard has always been a gigantic soulless entity in my mind.
So talking of experiments, this month U.K. publisher Penguin Books — actually now part of a gigantic publishing entity, after merging with Bertelsmann-owned RApril House in April to spawn Penguin Random House — has launched a little digital dabbling of its own, using its resurrected Pelican educational imprint as the medium for the experiment.
In this country, the gigantic, powerful entity we call Big Oil made $51.5 billion in the second quarter of 2013.
When one gigantic corporate entity is allowed to block farmers from planting a seed without compensating that monopoly, the farmers are held in bondage to uncontrolled price increases.
"It's a very American story, and it's the antithesis of what these companies are like today — gigantic corporate entities, run in a very bureaucratic way, and in a very different spirit".
Because of corporate domination, Americans have increasingly lost community and autonomy, and have acquired instead the tyranny of institutionalization: domination by gigantic, impersonal, bureaucratic, standardized entities -- visible in large corporations, the workplace, health care, schools, and much of our lives.
They include old stalwarts like Amazon, eBay and Craigslist; a newer generation of mobile upstarts like LetGo and OfferUp; and entities like Facebook, which has woven a gigantic social web and is leveraging that to build a locally focused marketplace.
Commercial entities, including expansive golf courses and for-profit businesses with gigantic lots, such as MillerCoors, used around $51 million.
