Word: gargantuanism
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...there is one thing the New York Times established in its gargantuan series "How Race Is Lived in America," it's that Americans of every color are still bedeviled and bewildered by race. If there's a second point the series made--in 14 installments published over the past six weeks, a national opinion poll and a special issue of the Times Sunday magazine that appeared last weekend--it's that even with the extraordinary journalistic resources of the nation's best newspaper at your command, it's difficult to say anything really new about that age-old and immutable...
...bank accounts. One class-action member discovered that $91.33 in legal fees had been deducted from his account--although he received only $2.19 in interest from the settlement award. Even in more traditional fee arrangements, the sheer size of some damage awards can mean that lawyers end up pocketing gargantuan amounts. Fees in nationwide tobacco litigation, for example, could top $30 billion. That's money that could be going to address the underlying problems at which the lawsuits were aimed...
...Today, this has become a gargantuan task. While other schools' moves toward House-like communities might prevent special interest balkanization and allow for greater supervision of drinking, at Harvard community spirit has proven more difficult to build...
...been transformed into a 115-ft.-high entrance hall, where visitors walk down a 75-ft.-wide ramp and encounter three enormous Louise Bourgeois towers, I Do, I Undo and I Re-do, comprising rusting spiral staircases and convex mirrors. On a bridge overhead is her gargantuan spider, Maman. All were commissioned for this space. The third section still houses transformers and switches that hum like a site-specific sound installation. A perfect, friendly backdrop for the down-and-dirty exploits of modern...
...told you to, you may not need to take any supplements. Consuming five servings of fruits and vegetables in the course of a day is often a better way to meet your daily vitamin requirements. It's almost impossible to overdose on such foods unless you're eating truly gargantuan portions. Besides, fruits and vegetables seem to have other, hidden health benefits...