Word: gargantuan
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...century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported, melting ice caps could raise global sea levels by as much as 88 cm. But last week the Atlantic Ocean seemed to be just growing wider. After U.S. President George W. Bush bluntly rejected any American role in the gargantuan, decade-long effort to forge an international agreement to slow global warming, advocates of the Kyoto Protocol in Europe reacted with howls of protest and betrayal...
...point out that the image used in the cartoon--an incredibly exaggerated and emaciated female body--has been the dominant symbol in the Steve Madden advertisement campaign for over two years. I have long been appalled at the unhealthy and overtly stereotypical image of a tiny waist and gargantuan legs being sold to young women...
Beat slumps in his chair. He picks his nose. He languorously runs a woman's comb through his hair. At times he appears defeated by the turgid subject and the mediocrity of assembled talent. Gradually, the teal and purple hibiscuses on his Hawaiian aloha shirt descend lower behind his gargantuan desk. The show is a bore, and Beat's not afraid to admit it. Who do you think the TV audience identifies with: the kimono-clad manga artist tendentiously making a point about how Japan isn't ready to host the World Cup, or Beat and his flagrant disdain...
...arms race in the Far East, triggered by Chinese efforts to build a nuclear arsenal capable of penetrating America's shield-in-the-sky. Worse, Moscow and Beijing may link arms against the U.S., and there goes the global neighborhood. So, Mr. President, you may want to recalculate the gargantuan bill of NMD by adding the political costs...
...flinching at the recent losses in your brokerage and 401(k) accounts, imagine how the managers of America's huge pension funds feel. The top 100 U.S. pension funds boasted a gargantuan $3.5 trillion in combined assets last September. Now, despite having fortified their reserves with huge stock-market gains in recent years, public and private pension funds are facing steep declines. Northrop Grumman, a giant in the aerospace and defense industry, called attention to this little-known fact in December. It warned that a drop in income from its pension investments could knock $50 million in pre-tax dollars...