Giant Industries founder Jim Acridge was ousted Monday as the company's chairman, chief executive officer and president amid growing concern over the propriety of a $ 5.4million insider loan.
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Giant Industries, Scottsdale, Ariz ., a refiner of petroluem products, agreed to sell its exploration and production assets to privately held Central Resources Inc . for $ 25.5 million.
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In an age when sports and entertainment have melded into one giant industry, the bet is that even in sports-soaked New York, arena football is a viable product for adrenaline-addicted fans.
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The inquiry into Thursday's twin blasts at the Giant Industries refinery could take up to a year, said an official with the U . S . Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board, an independent government agency.
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Fancy rims and radios might get the most attention, but car air fresheners have quietly become a giant industry : The market research firm Mintel said it was a $ 347 million business last year, up 10.2 percent from 2001.
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Any other business-- whether small shops or giant industries-- can pick up and go, relocate across the country and thrive as well in one place as another, as long as customers, raw material, workers, transportation and such are in suitable supply.
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Now Bush is eagerly waiting to sign what is called the most sweeping bankruptcy legislation in decades, all benefiting giant industries _ from big banks to big auto dealerships to big apartment complexes _ that gave more than $ 35 million in political contributions ( mostly to Republicans ) last year.
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An article being published on Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that while their ultimate goals are different _ tobacco companies want to keep their customers for a lifetime, while the drug companies'products are aimed at weaning them from nicotine _ the two giant industries are on a collision course.
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In addition to its refineries, Giant Industries, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, owned a crude-oil-gathering pipeline system based in Farmington, New Mexico, a fleet of crude-oil and finished-product truck transports and a chain of retail service stations and convenience stores in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.
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Roosevelt understood that in such a society, those who were not favored by talent, inherited wealth, or luck would be at a huge disadvantage . " Among an increasing host of fellow citizens, among the often intangible forces of giant industry, man has discovered that his individual strength and wits were no longer enough, " he said in a fireside chat in 1934.
