Word: gargantuans
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...when Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers launched a new, $8 million television ad campaign. The first 30-second spot features three elderly ladies who have walked into a fictional "Home of the Big Bun" hamburger outlet and become outraged by the microscopic size of the patty on a gargantuan, fluffy bun. One woman, played by Octogenarian Clara Peller, asks irately, "Where's the beef?" The implied answer: Wendy's quarter-pound burgers have the beef. In a second spot, Peller uses a telephone to put the inevitable question to the owner of "Big Bun," who is ensconced...
Then the President met with congressional Republicans and urged them to assail the Democrats as the high-tax party. Democrats, for their part, agreed reluctantly to join a budget-cutting conference while gloomily predicting that Reagan was trying to inveigle them into giving a bipartisan blessing to gargantuan deficits, or set them up as scapegoats, or both. As a kind of grace note to the babble, one of the President's top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, derided the analysis of another, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein, as ivory-tower dreaming. Said Regan, once chief...
...presidential election to concentrate politicians' minds on the gravest threats facing the nation. After many months of bitter wrangling, for example, Congress and the Reagan Administration have at last reached a tacit understanding about what they will do between now and November 1984 to reduce those gargantuan $200 billion budget deficits. In a word, nothing...
...biggest fear is that gargantuan budget deficits will put an end to the upswing after only a further modest drop in unemployment. Says Mondale: "I am deeply worried that the current economic recovery cannot be sustained" in an era of "outsized deficits." Such misgivings are by no means confined to Democrats. Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor as Reagan's chief economic adviser, voices "latent concern" that because of deficits "inflation will hover in the background and future increases in employment will not be significant...
...Emperor offers a trenchant portrait of a 1963 conference of African leaders in the Ethiopian capital. During a gargantuan banquet for more than 3,000 guests in the Emperor's palace, Kapuściński ventures outdoors to an area where dishwashers are throwing out leftovers from the banquet tables. A strange sound issues from the far side of the garbage dump. "I noticed that something was moving, shifting, murmuring, squishing, sighing, and smacking its lips . . . In the thick night, a crowd of barefoot beggars stood huddled together . . . I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish...