Word: gargantuans
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...Behind gargantuan efforts from the players Harvard needed--but didn't expect production from--the top-seeded Crimson cruised past tenth-seeded Princeton, 6-2, and took the first two points of the best-of-three-points ECAC quarterfinals...
...conducted by animals implicitly challenges the notion that this is an acceptable form of sexual expression; the masks draw a visible barrier between reason and desire. And as if that were not obvious enough, the film also includes a running dialogue between a man (er...dog) and his gargantuan, sentient penis. While the depictions spring from a liberal attitude towards sex, the ethics motivating them are conservative...
Biologists, unlike physicists, are unaccustomed to gargantuan, gazillion- dollar research projects. So when American geneticists embarked on a $3 billion effort to map out all the hereditary information found on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, they decided, like the proverbial tortoise, to take the slow and careful route. Plotting out a 12-year game plan, the geneticists subdivided the work among nine different laboratories so that eventually the scientists could pool their results in one highly detailed chart. Along the way, they have been trying to patent their discoveries, even before knowing precisely what their importance...
...ridiculous to characterize those houses with the most established stereotypes as gargantuan, homogeneous cliques comprised of several hundred people. Such houses, however, do provide an effective escape route from the diverse environment that provokes heated discussion and promotes understanding in a student's first year at Harvard...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...