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Also, though exports are now among the fastest-growing items in the U.S. economy, they are still running well behind imports, resulting in a gargantuan and growing trade deficit. That, however, comes about in part because the country must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear...
...announcement was another blow for airport boosters smarting from three earlier postponements, snafus and design changes that have put the gargantuan project, bigger than Manhattan, seven months behind schedule and boosted the cost by hundreds of millions. It left them wondering if the $3.2 billion project -- the nation's first big new airport in 20 years -- was jinxed. Cynics who have long questioned the need for such an extravagant facility chuckled that D.I.A. should be renamed D.O.A. -- dead on arrival...
...take an annual perspective, we find that 34.2 percent of a year is 125 days. In other words, this year the government is forcing us to work 125 days just to finance its gargantuan desire to spend our money...
...front-runners for the Republican nomination, W. Mitt Romney and John Lakian, are both businessexecutives who have the financial base to competewith the Democrat's gargantuan campaign fund--$2.5million, according to The Boston Globe...
...give a lawyer the assignment, all the rest is commentary. If a couple dozen lawyers can't handle this, then what good are their fancy educations, and what good have they done by forsaking the even fancier jobs they might have held in the private sector? If the gargantuan project should show any little chinks when it is finished, these can be patched through litigation, thus calling on the talents of more lawyers. When drunks treat hangovers in the same manner, it is known as taking the hair of the dog that...