Word: behemothly
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SECRETARY McNamara has lulled most of the press to sleep with chants of "cost effectiveness" and "buying at the lowest sound price," but behind this jargon lurks a behemoth of waste. Senator William Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, placed the figure at "maybe billions and billions" of dollars following testimony last May by officials of the General Accounting Office...
Incredibly sloppy bookkeeping and lackadaisical enforcement of regulations are solidly entrenched at the Defense Department. The GAO revelations offered a glimpse of the vast waste at the DOD, but only more prolonged and intense publicity can drive off the behemoth...
...Washington's Corcoran Gallery will have no trouble finding the exhibit. Once they step inside the skylighted atrium they will be in it, surrounded by it, and all but overwhelmed by it. Rising around them on spiky legs is an asymmetric network of 43 piers, a black behemoth, 45 ft. long, 33 ft. wide and 22 ft. high. Its thrusting structure wars against the gallery's Doric columns, seemingly pushing them aside to create its own hypnotic environment like some underwater coral growth...
...When the behemoth, which is entitled Smoke, was put on view last week, a blue-eyed, bearded man, beaming from behind horn-rimmed glasses, said, "Don't you love it? It's crazy. It strikes me as one of the most profound things I've ever seen. It's so serene...
...biggest, most crucial, yet least predictable segment of the budget is defense. And though the Administration is striving mightily to keep it to a minimum, the Pentagon last week was in labor with a behemoth...