31.   It also combines two major players in a defense industry that is coping with the end of Cold War prosperity by consolidating rapidly into three or four giant companies.

32.   It is difficult for these giant companies to make any handsome gains in a balky global economy.

33.   It would also further consolidate an industry that could quickly be moving toward three giant companies.

34.   Just a giant company in a big building on Broadway in New York.

35.   Many farmers are worried about being squeezed by giant agricultural companies.

36.   Many people fear that giant companies, including some of the biggest booksellers, are setting up sham online subsidiaries to evade state sales taxes.

37.   Meanwhile, the legislation as presently drafted would do more to help giant aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin, increasing the improbability that startup ventures can compete.

38.   Meanwhile, talks with Hoechst, a giant German pharmaceutical company, continue.

39.   Most of it belonged to giant companies, but hundreds of small businesses in neighboring buildings were evicted as rubble and dust rained down upon them.

40.   Never are you likely to hear explained more coldly or more exactly the changing relationship between giant companies and the people who serve them.