Word: gargantuans
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...become its deplorable habit, the legislature came to the end of a fiscal year with the great majority of appropriations bills-nine of 13 in this case-unpassed. Once again, Congress had to bundle money for defense expenditures, most social spending and even some routine housekeeping chores into a gargantuan continuing resolution...
...Democrats also zeroed in on the issues and themes they will stress in the campaign. Speaker after speaker painted a portrait of false prosperity menaced by gargantuan budget deficits and of a fragile peace threatened by Ronald Reagan's alleged warlike proclivities. But the overriding message of the convention was that America must return to old-fashioned values: hard work, playing by the rules and, above all, devotion to family. If that sounds rather Republican-indeed, Reaganite-Mondale, Ferraro and their supporting cast converted it into an assault on the "fairness issue." In contrast to what Mondale...
...economists, it is a phenomenon outside the realm of all historical experience. To American workers and businessmen, it is a malignant force that destroys jobs and profits. To Government policymakers, it is a vexing dilemma that stirs impassioned pleas for protectionism. Gargantuan and still growing, the U.S. trade deficit has raised grave fears about the future health and wealth of the American economy...
Heller warned, however, of several "thunderheads" that could rain on Reagan's re-election effort or generate hailstorms for whoever occupies the White House in 1985. The dangers include rising interest rates, a gargantuan federal deficit, a plunge in the dollar's value, a cutoff of Persian Guff oil supplies, and increasing turmoil in the financial industry as a result of the near collapse of the Continental Illinois Bank and the continuing troubles that major banks are having with loans to Latin American countries...
...that the Soviet Union and East Germany were pulling out of the events, most American commentators sounded fed up with the whole business. Perhaps justifiably. Since 1968 every Olympics has been spoiled by some act of political protest or violence, and during that same period the Games have grown gargantuan in size, stakes and influence. Until the Soviet decision, it was estimated that this year a television audience of 2½ billion people would watch the events, "more than half the living, breathing people on earth," as Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee President Peter Ueberroth once described the crowd...