According to pessimistic analysts, Gazprom belongs more in this gallery of malfunctioning gigantism than among blue-chip global companies.
Foes of gigantism point out that, so far, it is doing nicely without becoming Manhattan-by-the-Thames.
Indeed, mergers are particularly important in explaining gigantism.
As a former nuclear physicist, Mr Lévy-Lang should take fusion in his stride, but he used to disparage "the value of gigantism".
Gastronomic gigantism may be a fad in Lebanon, where chefs recently baked a tray of kibbeh, a pie of minced meat and cracked wheat, at 20 square metres (215 square feet) a candidate for the Guinness Book of Records.But for nationalists there is more at stake than fashion.
A lot has still to happen before a tower can metamorphose from a design with enthusiastic backers into a few hundred metres of vertical glass and steel.Penthouse envyFrom a developer's point of view, skyscrapers come in three varieties: speculative ventures, commissions for a company headquarters and government-sponsored exercises in gigantism.
Mr Richardson returns again and again to the concept of "gigantism"—the disproportionate enlargement of limbs and other body parts for greater expressive and psychological effect which gave Picasso's own classicism an ironic edge.Rome was also where Picasso met and pursued Olga Khokhlova, one of Diaghilev's Russian dancers, whom he would marry in 1918.
If gigantism is an inexorable trend in airport design, the architects should first be obliged to walk the distances they make passengers trudge.
Grey-suited gigantism is yesterday's story.
Before you reach for the bug spray, consider this: despite their startling gigantism, none of these organisms are harmful to humans (unless unduly provoked, of course).
If this occurs in youth, before the closure of the epiphyses (ends) of the long bones, it results in gigantism.
