Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

* Big Mac Index, a measurement of purchasing power parity across different countries, popularized by The Economist

My influences are Big Black, Sonic Youth, and Fleetwood Mac " to which guitarist Eric Erlandson replied.

In the initial advertisement placed by Love which resulted in Hole's formation, she cited Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth, and Big Black as her three major musical influences.

Opened in 1957, the bridge ( familiarly known as " Big Mac " and " Mighty Mac ") is the third longest in total suspension in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere.

Mark David McGwire ( born October 1, 1963 ), nicknamed " Big Mac ", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

* The Big Mac Index is introduced in The Economist newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity.

* Mac ( or Big Mac ), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma

Visualisation of the Big Mac Index

In addition, The Economist is known for its Big Mac Index, which it first published in 1986, which uses the price of the hamburger in different countries as an informal measure of the purchasing power of currencies.

The Big Mac hamburger made its debut in 1968

Norway is among the most expensive countries in the world, as reflected in the Big Mac Index and other indices.

Big Mac hamburgers, like this one from Japan, are similar worldwide.

An example of one measure of law of one price, which underlies purchasing power parity, is the Big Mac Index, popularized by The Economist, which looks at the prices of a Big Mac burger in McDonald's restaurants in different countries.

The Big Mac Index is presumably useful because it is based on a well-known food whose final price, easily tracked in many countries, includes input costs from a wide range of sectors in the local economy, such as agricultural commodities ( beef, bread, lettuce, cheese ), labor ( blue and white collar ), advertising, rent and real estate costs, transportation, etc.

Furthermore, in some emerging economies, western fast food represents an expensive niche product price well above the price of traditional staples — i. e. the Big Mac is not a mainstream ' cheap ' meal as it is in the West, but a luxury import for the middle classes and foreigners.

This relates back to the idea of product differentiation: few substitutes for the Big Mac allows McDonald's to have market power.

Countries like Argentina that have abundant beef resources see a structural underpricing in the Big Mac.

The Starbucks tall latte index is a variant of the Big Mac Index ; it can give information regarding exchange rates similar to the Big Mac Index.

* Central Avenue Confidential ( 1999, Atomic Theory Records )-- Big Jay plays jazz with a combo featuring Red Young on B-3 organ.

# To A Man With A Big Nose ( 2D and CG combo )

Pete Kelly was a musician, a cornet player who headed his own jazz combo, " Pete Kelly's Big Seven.

In June 2012 the price of the Big Mac value meal suddenly rose by 26 %, closer to that of other meals, after The Economist, The New York Times, and other media reported on the unusual pricing.

Some of the lesser pioneer hostelries were designed primarily to provide meal service for passengers in the Rocky Mountains where railway grades were too severe to justify the operation of dining cars ( see the Big Hill ), although Glacier House and the Sicamous Hotel were destination hotels in their own right.

The Swedish Chef has finally caught the Christmas Turkey ends up diverting the Swedish Chef to try to make a meal out of Big Bird.

The Swedish Chef calls in Big Bird where he tries to make a meal out of Big Bird only for Big Bird to give the Swedish Chef some chocolate-covered birdseed and the both sing " A Christmas Song.

Pastore held the official record for completing the 72-ounce steak meal challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, having eaten the entire meal in 9½ minutes in May 1987 ( this was his 7th successful completion of the feat ) until March 24, 2008, when competitive eating champion, Joey Chestnut, finished the meal challenge in 8 minutes & 52 seconds.

Big, complex and thick, this beer is a meal in a glass.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

Why not make a beginning with a united and disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States??

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.

Big Magnum calibers appeared in the Remington line for 1961, with the addition of the and to the list of Model 725's.

Kerr, who set the world record earlier this month in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3, wiped out Mills's early pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

* A Conversation with Alan Kay Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Big M was charged with a violation of the Lord's Day Act.

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

* Big White Carstairs: Buchanesque Empire builder, with a tendency to mislay his dress trousers.

While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.

A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion ( one thousand million ; 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >; SI prefix giga -) kelvin and the density was about that of air, neutrons combined with protons to form the Universe's deuterium and helium nuclei in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis.

Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.

Much of the current work in cosmology includes understanding how galaxies form in the context of the Big Bang, understanding the physics of the Universe at earlier and earlier times, and reconciling observations with the basic theory.

* Big bang model with animated graphics