Word: gargantuans
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...Reagan's new budget? The arbitrary ones contemplated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act? Whatever might emerge from a tortured compromise between President and Congress? Agony, because one thing is quite clear in any event: whenever, however and by whomever the job is done, any major shrinking of the gargantuan federal deficit must involve spending surgery that will hurt more citizens more seriously than ever. As that realization sinks in, the cries of anticipatory pain are growing ever louder...
When it comes to the size of his portions, the avid French gourmet usually avoids the gargantuan in favor of the petit. The merest taste of his favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island...
Well, surprise. This year's Beajolais Nouveau is just as bad as last year's, and, as far as I can remember, just as bad as the year's before. Once again, I have fallen, headlong, for something which I know is a totally gargantuan hype. And so has everyone else. The trouble is, I know that in November 1986 I--and crowds of others around me--will fall victim to the same hype...
...growing gridiron gargantuan is Brown...
...notion that "insiderism" can expose the true campaign is peddled in two books by two quintessentially Washington institutions: Newsweek, and the columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover (Germond qualifies solo). Newseek commited at least seven top-flight reporters to the gargantuan task of placing you, the reader, in the hip pocket of the candidates and their aides. Germond and Witcover, who can't help but write from the perspective of politicians' hip pockets, exhaustively chronicle the motivations and actions of all the Democratic pretenders and give a detailed account of the President's reelection effort...