Word: gargantuan
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April 15 was the deadline for Americans to file their 1984 tax returns, but for the Internal Revenue Service that date marked only the halfway point in the gargantuan task of sorting and examining 100 million tax reports. Ordinarily the agency, long hailed by intimidated taxpayers as a model of efficiency, is unfazed by the awesome bureaucratic burden. This year, however, an astonishing array of glitches in the IRS's new $131 million Sperry-Univac computers has created an unprecedented backlog of unprocessed tax forms...
...electors would, as McBrien puts it, "be looking for a breather" and would try to avoid the possibility of another long-term Pontiff. There was much discussion of an older, interim figure, a caretaker who by definition would have to worry less about living up to John Paul's gargantuan legacy...
...helped advise the municipal government on the formation of these new suburbs. "But just building an expensive residential development won't make an entire community come together." What's more, because Shanghai is a trendsetter for China, other mainland cities might blindly follow, littering the Chinese interior with gargantuan Paris Towns. "If other cities copy Shanghai on this, we could have a disaster on our hands," says Tsinghua University's Mao. "This is not the path that China's urbanization should be taking...
...HONORED. GODZILLA, gargantuan, irradiated reptile of film and pop-culture fame; with a star on the Walk of Fame; in Hollywood. The tribute coincided with the monster's 50th birthday and the release of his 28th movie, Godzilla: Final Wars. Tsutomu Kitagawa, 46, the third actor to portray Godzilla since 1954, accepted the honor in full costume...
...with most of Wolfe’s novels there is a host of characters, but four comprise the novel’s main focus: Charlotte Simmons, the naïve and beautiful titular protagonist; Hoyt Thorpe, the self-obsessed fratboy; “Jojo” Johanssen, the gargantuan whitey baller; and Adam Gellin, Nerd...