Word: gargantuanism
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Implementing these widespread measures will be a gargantuan undertaking for the INS, already overtaxed by the job of rounding up and deporting more than a million aliens a year. To handle amnesty petitions, the agency plans to open some 100 legalization centers, creating an entire new bureaucracy. "Even Sears and McDonald's would find opening 100 operations around the country a tall order," says the INS's Everson. The service has hired 2,200 new people, purchased $18 million worth of new furniture and 600 desktop computers. Is the agency worried about the deluge? "Hell, yes, I'm worried," says...
...that Texaco has chosen that route, its battle with Pennzoil will go on. Under the protection and supervision of a bankruptcy judge, Texaco will undoubtedly keep fighting the most gargantuan legal judgment in history. If it exhausts all appeals in the Texas courts, the company's survival could once again wind up in the hands of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...measures amounted to little more than a blip on the gargantuan volume of annual U.S.-Japanese trade, which totaled $112 billion last year. But the slap at Tokyo was also a powerful diplomatic message. For the first time, longstanding American grievances over the trade practices of its second largest trading partner (after Canada) had resulted in a sharp and pointed U.S. economic response. Said a senior Administration official: "This will hopefully send a signal to all our trading partners that the free ride is over." As Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige put it to TIME, "You can't rely on words...
Wolfe today is regarded as neither literary genius nor social success. Both his writing and his behavior are seen to have suffered from gargantuan excess. Donald, however, reveals a man whose literary genius draws its very strength from social excess, from the ability to experience and emote on a grand scale. He reveals a man who, according to one of his lovers, was "intolerable and wonderful and talked like an angel and was a real son-of-a-bitch...
...however, has asked for a refund, for Zeffirelli's vision is as vivid as ever. In addition to Soprano Eva Marton as Princess Turandot, Tenor Placido Domingo as Calaf, her suitor, and the other principals, there are 286 singers and supernumeraries. By comparison, Zeffirelli's Boheme at its most gargantuan fielded a cast of merely 280. Much of the Turandot scenery was shipped from Italy in eleven cargo containers, each 40 ft. long. There are 300 costumes, and the headgear alone uses 44 lbs. of pearls, golf balls, chandelier crystals, Ping-Pong balls, espresso coffee filters and rosary beads. Depending...