Word: gargantuanism
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...unspoken bargain that has ruled U.S.-Japanese relations for decades is breaking down. Right through the Bush Administration, U.S. Presidents viewed Japan primarily as an indispensable cold-war ally. Annoyed though they might be by the gargantuan trade deficits that in the U.S.'s view resulted largely from Japanese protectionism, they would not push any trade dispute to the breaking point. In particular, they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering...
...class: Cindy Landry and Burt Lancon, who were pairs silver medalists in the 1994 U.S. Open figure-skating championships, reimagine the Cavarettas' routine on a tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld cheer...
Castro is on the scene before 2 a.m. and there until 11 a.m. Underground during the graveyard shift, he bakes everything from donuts, croissants and muffins to brownies, cakes and pies. On big baking days, 300 pounds of flour will pass through the gargantuan ovens. The bakery down under is the sole provider of goodies for all the houses, the Greenhouse Cafe, three other on-campus cafes and Harvard Catering...
Instead the Japanese bureaucracy is marshaling its forces for a ``multimedia war'' -- with all the implications of official encouragement that the phrase suggests. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications' (M.P.T.) gargantuan plan to run fiber-optic cable into almost every home by 2010 will cost between $330 billion and $500 billion. Critics warn that it is not only an expensive but probably also an unnecessary weapon, since there are no services -- current or expected soon -- that would actually employ fiber to the home. A hybrid system of coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable does the job just as well...
Because Bennington is a small college, however, its abolition of tenure will not affect gargantuan Harvard, another professor said...