Multics and Common Lisp were big-bang projects, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being Popular] Reference

"You shouldn't expect big-bang changes," says Rothman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Technocrat] Reference

USATODAY. com - Yankees sluggers prove big-bang theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Yankees sluggers prove big-bang theory] Reference

Anyway, Zoetrope is sort of a big-bang for post-1970 culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [inkblurt · Group genius & American Zoetrope] Reference

Like, this whole big-bang theory regarding the creation of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [and another thing . .] Reference

At that point, Japan's big-bang reform could belatedly live up to its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOMEBOUND JAPAN: THE RISING SONS] Reference

Scintillating Nova programs about quarks, black holes, the big-bang theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon Will Be Televised] Reference

Mass as a catalyst for a very special precipitant in the post big-bang soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

"We should cooperate in specific areas, not have one big-bang approach," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Doesn't Need IMF's Cash, but Does Need Its Help] Reference

How to pay for it: The big-bang theory of health reform inevitably means big bucks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down To Brass Tacks] Reference

As for Clinton's other big-bang suggestion, bank regulatory reform: it's irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blue Christmas For Elvis] Reference

The "big-bang" model describes a possible scenario for the early evolution of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference

As it snatched the liver out of the air, the big-bang the boys had slipped into it went off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

Unlike the original big-bang theory, inflation predicts the scale of these ripples of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference

But Cal won't even be in the big-bang scene that opens the book, so this is just more garnish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon Now?] Reference

Or maybe the jumbled prints and wierd colors are proof that the big-bang theory is really true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903] Reference

By patiently analyzing documents and testimony, the jurors calmly set off this big-bang verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why It Matters] Reference

The big-bang in this 4-dimensional cosmology corresponds to the event horizon of the black brane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Extra Dimensions Disappear] Reference

"From the outset we did not approach these (November) elections in a big-bang manner," Moosa said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

All of these problems seem much more amenable to incremental progress than a big-bang breakthrough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victory Project - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

China's financial-market reform is best characterized as a drip-drip, rather than a big-bang affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yuan Goes (a Bit More) Global] Reference

She's dazzled by the idea of writing fiction and speaking French and learning about the big-bang theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Hellenga's "Snakewoman of Little Egypt," reviewed by Carolyn See] Reference

"But it got us closer to doing a big-bang system conversion and working out the bugs before we pulled the switch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Crisis for U.S. Banks? Integration] Reference

And I'm up to my neck in knee-breakers, so I can only think of one way to get a big-bang ending and bring it on home.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

The signal to those future beings looking backwards, must be that of a hot big-bang emerging out of a cold big crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow of Time in Scientific American] Reference

"I think in May they'll go for a big-bang approach," said Marco Annunziata, an economist with UniCredit Group in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [ECB Rate Cut Falls Short of Expectations] Reference

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday dismissed suggestions of a "big-bang" abolition of exchange controls, saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But the thousand daily decisions that usually make up policy are eclipsed by big-bang moments such as we are now witnessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Ueberroth has been looking for the sort of corporate big-bang support that helped him finance the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Can Do It For Ourselves'] Reference

Under the big-bang financial-market opening, which began April 1, U.S. money is now accepted as legal tender in many places in Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Japan Save Itself?] Reference

And I think if there is any moment that you can kind of, again, have the great -- the big-bang theory, you know, let's just go for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2009] Reference

If his past management style is a guide, Mr. Ostrowski likely will pursue lots of smaller acquisitions instead of a big-bang approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertelsmann chief] Reference

Instead, it's all about the big-bang theory: the bigger the bangs (explosions, gunshots, mammoth fireballs), the bigger the box-office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Expendables] Reference

But then, BPCL is no minnow in the global money markets given its active treasury and big-bang crude oil purchases made through the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bharat Petroleum Goes Global] Reference

Furthermore, clergy have often been important contributors to scientific progress: Mendel in genetics and Lemaître in big-bang cosmology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War] Reference

Other parts of the curriculum were carefully worded to raise doubts about global warming and the big-bang theory of how the universe began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education Board in Texas Faces Curbs] Reference