Word: gargantuan
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Something as small as a box cutter tore the World Trade Center from our skyline, yet the terrorist threats will only get smaller still--germs, molecules, split atoms--and become the more menacing for it. Americans' greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...
...people pushed their way through the gargantuan crowd, they proceeded in distinguishable clumps of color...
...inflated as they were then and most nations?with the notable exceptions of Malaysia and Hong Kong?have abandoned their currency pegs. If currencies continue to be debased, it will be a more gradual process. While troubles in Argentina?which effectively dumped its own peg recently amid a gargantuan debt crisis?might prompt traders to take a second look at Malaysia and Hong Kong, those nations have built defenses that should keep speculation under control...
...while Bush failed to convince the Europeans, the fact remains that he sets their agenda. Because he can, by virtue of America's gargantuan military power that literally dwarfs that of its combined allies or foes, and by virtue of its status as the premier polluter of the planet's atmosphere. The Europeans may not like his position on missile defense or Kyoto, but by stating both as a fait accompli he has forced them to respond...
Rudenstine’s agenda was not entirely his to define. Six of his 10 years included that gargantuan Capital Campaign. No Harvard president ever faced such a monumental assignment before. The outgoing president maintains that he spent the majority of his time on other things, but it is impossible to deny the length and time-consuming nature of the task...