Word: gargantuanism
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...Miami Beach, Haas transformed the annex of a beachfront hotel into an Art Deco triumphal arch with gargantuan caryatids. In Cincinnati, on the facade of an office building, he simulated a Piranesian cutaway of a coffered Roman temple. His latest creation, on a lobby wall in Boston, is a lyrical evocation of a 19th century crystal pavilion, complete with painted palm trees and an image of tumbling water that blurs into a real fountain...
...military maxim has it that amateurs talk about strategy while professional soldiers discuss logistics. That is as true in the age of intercontinental missiles as it was in Napoleon's day. The hardest part of any war is moving fighting forces into the field and supplying their gargantuan needs. When the U.S. decided last week to draw "a line in the sand" of the Arabian Peninsula, it took on an immense logistical task. Keeping troops supplied with water in the desert's 120 degrees heat will be as vital as keeping them supplied with ammunition...
...foot dragging on the environment, was moving to crack down on major polluters like Exxon. The company pronounced itself "disappointed" at the indictments and vowed to fight them in court. The prosecution may yet result in a settlement. But no matter what happens, the case will further complicate a gargantuan legal wrangle that already involves more than 150 civil complaints as well as the separate prosecution of tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood by the state of Alaska...
...refer to the home mortgage interest deduction, the cornerstone of America's gargantuan, secret welfare state for the middle class...
...Force's estimate of the B-2's price tag, gargantuan as it is, may be far too low. In an exchange with Air Force Chief of Staff Larry Welch, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin warned that Congress would never go along with the Air Force's plan to spend $8 billion annually -- more than twice the current SDI budget -- on the Stealth. At the more likely spending rate of $3 billion a year, said Aspin, the sticker price would soar to more than $1 billion for each plane...