And while Ms. Cole says the company made mistakes in "not reaching out to the community as much as we could have," she also said she believed that environmentalists from other parts of California were using the situation in Kettleman City as "a gigantic fund-raising effort".
Right now, venture firms are reacting in part to the $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, which SoftBank has hinted is merely the first of more gigantic funds it plans to raise, including from investors in the Middle East who'd like to plug more money into Silicon Valley than they've been able to do historically.
That program "is not a gigantic slush fund," Glenn Kurtz, a lawyer for the funds, said Friday.
Shaw, the gigantic hedge fund complex, lost investors throughout last year even though it invoked triggers on terms agreed in advance.
In the fall of 1998, Long-Term Capital Managigantica gigantic hedge fund, collapsed, threatening to paralyze the financial system of the United States.
Over the last month, Kim Yong-chul, Samsung's former chief in-house lawyer and a prosecutor before that, has contended that Samsung stashed away a gigantic slush fund.
NO major financial firm has survived a criminal indictment, and with SAC Capital Advisors facing insider trading charges, this gigantic hedge fund founded and run by Steven A. Cohen may have to unwind its portfolio.
It had demanded a gigantic buffer fund to protect Sweden's welfare state from the effects of euro membership; Mr Persson refused, fearing to alienate non-socialist support for the euro.
Britain, which has turned itself into a gigantic hedge fund, but of a kind that lacks the ability to profit from a downturn, is likely to be especially badly hit.
In a press release today it notes this is only the second time SoftBank's gigantic Vision Fund has invested in an enterprise software company.
SoftBank made waves when its gigantic Vision Fund hit a massive $93 billion first close of a targeted $100 billion total last year, but already it is clear why the firm is reportedly planning a sequel.
