Word: gargantuans
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...funny about the endless columns of figures was already outdated. The sound-and-sight gag did dramatize what Ronald Reagan considers the theme of the budget he was scheduled to present formally to Congress on Monday: the painful necessity of virtually freezing overall federal spending in order to reduce gargantuan deficits. But long before the fat, gray-bound budget volumes appeared over the weekend, that theme had got lost in a spreading uproar over one component of the budget that Reagan, far from freezing, wants to maintain at a rolling boil: military spending...
...action was symptomatic of what the American Medical Association is calling a crisis in medical malpractice suits. According to a recent A.M.A. report, Americans are filing three times as many malpractice claims as they were just a decade ago and are winning settlements of gargantuan proportions. The huge awards are causing insurance companies to jack up their malpractice premiums and forcing doctors to raise their fees...
...Russian ; blood and a batch of patents for airplanes and automobiles. But one can never be sure that anything Pyatnitski says is true. He is certainly an egomaniac and very likely mad; he is also a reactionary Tom Swift, an anti-Semite, a sybarite and a paranoiac with a gargantuan appetite for cocaine...
...White House wants to put all the budget cuts into a single gargantuan bill for one yes-or-no vote. The aim would be to throw down this challenge to the Democrats who control the House: You have been screaming about the deficit; here is your chance to do something about it. Democrats, predictably, are resisting. They talk of submitting each cut to a vote "on its merits," a process that would doom many of the proposals...
...current financial year and only slightly less in 1986. And these calculations assume renewed growth in the economy that the deficits themselves could all too easily retard. For example, a major cause of the current slowdown is the excess of U.S. imports over exports, estimated at a gargantuan $130 billion this year; this trade deficit is aggravated by the budget deficit, which keeps U.S. interest rates and the value of the dollar artificially high...