Word: gargantuans
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...serious body building, a will to control the body becomes an ambition to transform it. The flesh, mastered, becomes art: hairless, oiled, gargantuan. In ironic alchemy, all the exertions and self-denials turn the body into a gleaming masterpiece of excess...
...just as that gargantuan hole in Harvard Square disappeared after seven long years, a menacing cavity of similar proportions sprang up in the heart of downtown Cambridge--right above the Central Square subway station as its renovations began last month...
...identity of the man occupying the Oval Office. Jimmy Carter sought fairly close coordination of national policies amounting almost to a master plan for the world economy. Reagan during his first term preached reliance on the free market to promote global prosperity, and devoted much energy to denying that gargantuan U.S. budget deficits were damaging the world economy by keeping interest rates high and forcing up the value of the dollar. To some of the other summiteers, he seemed to be following a go-it-alone, nationalist line...
Some of Pickens' hostility toward his gargantuan rivals stems from frustration. "Big Oil is a club," says he, "and they'll do everything to keep me out." That can sometimes seem to include snubbing him at social gatherings. The chairman of one oil giant, a former friend, now looks the other way when he runs into Pickens at industry meetings...
...American-grown food. The remarkable strength of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies is perhaps the biggest cause of all; it forces overseas buyers to pay out more francs, pounds or yen to buy American wheat, corn or soybeans. The muscle-bound dollar is primarily an ironic consequence of gargantuan U.S. budget deficits, which keep American interest rates high and entice foreign investors to convert their currencies into dollars, bidding up the greenback's price, in order to pour money into American investments...