The federal government began to subsidize school lunches as a way to manage giant farm surpluses, while simultaneously supporting a suffering population.
In recent years I have watched the creation of whole new departments to manage giant caches of data but more often than not, this is seen as a threat to the IT department.
It is hard to imagine how these people put one foot in front of the other in the morning, let alone managed giant careers.
And that should revive questions about whether it is even possible to effectively manage giant banks without putting consumers and sometimes the entire economy at risk.
Nor was this a time to sit fat and happy on a big pile of assets and let the fees roll in, an indirect slap at actively managed giants such as Franklin Templeton and Pimco, where assets under management have recently been declining.
The Sports and Exposition Authority built and manages Giants Stadium, Meadowlands Racetrack, Continental Airlines Arena and Monmouth Park Racetrack.
Humana, a managed care giant with 1999 sales of nearly $10 billion, saw its health plan membership slump from 5.9 million to 5.4 million following a premium increase last fall.
Rigney replaced Leo Durocher as the Giants' manager in 1956 after managing the Giants' Minneapolis Millers farm team of the American Association to the Little World Series championship.
There he was responsible for managing a giant snail called a trochus that produces an attractive pearly shell, valuable to native jewelers.
