Word: gargantuans
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...Bergsten's view, however, another force will also press the dollar down. The U.S. current-xaccount deficit is headed for a record $300 billion in 1999. It would be even worse if gains in financial transactions and services such as advertising and insurance were not offseting part of the gargantuan deficit in exchange of goods. The trade deficit, or excess of merchandise imports over exports, will be roughly $350 billion. So the U.S. is spilling too many dollars into currency markets for the greenback to maintain its present value against most other moneys, euro or no euro...
...working. "You may want to stand up and get in the physical thing of it," Katzenberg says to Kilmer. "He ain't going to stand up," someone in the booth observes. Things go downhill from there, in a session that is something of a metaphor for the gargantuan struggle to make The Prince of Egypt...
...only natural that American business, seduced by the same belief that size matters, would reshape the corporation into the gargantuan mass called the conglomerate...
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA's next delivery to Mir could be four cinder blocks and a set of socket wrenches. Russian and U.S. space officials, looking for ways to save a buck on the gargantuan ISS, said Wednesday they were now considering stripping Mir for parts, to be used on the new International Space Station. But TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger smells an excuse to keep Russia's never-say-deorbit space jalopy up a little while longer...
...control over how she was portrayed. Because of this, Hoelterhoff only briefly mentions Bartoli's gradual weight gain and only paints a few unflattering portraits of the pasta-eating mezzo. This is not to say that Hoelterhoff pulled any punches with Bartoli's colleagues. Hoelterhoff seems obsessed with the gargantuan proportions of some of today's most well-known sopranos...