Word: mammoth
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...hope is that this government will prove its worthiness and integrity and its firm readiness to perform the mammoth tasks it is burdened with." GRAND AYATULLAH ALI HUSAINI SISTANI, spiritual leader of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, in a restrained endorsement of the newly appointed Iraqi interim government...
...don’t expect Rudenstine to be taking on any mammoth administrative tasks at Harvard—or anywhere else—anytime soon...
...tolerance. Wherever such Muslims live, they tend not to live in coexistence.” And under Singh’s tenure, India could begin to emerge from large-scale poverty. As finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh began the effort to scale back India’s mammoth bureaucracy. At the same time, Singh acknowledges that much work needs to be done to spread the benefits of India’s economic growth to the rural majority...
...producer for American Idol. The rented eight-bedroom manse that houses Idol's finalists, in the mountains above Los Angeles, is like the show itself: big, showy and just tacky enough to be amusing. There are faux-castle turrets, an Egyptian-style horse statue, a gargantuan wooden wagon, a mammoth futuristic fake-suede couch--and three very ordinary teenage women battling America's largest case of butterflies. A few weeks ago, over a catered dinner of poached salmon and Chinese chicken salad, the contestants chatted with TIME about taking the judges' critiques of their singing, especially the gleeful Simon Cowell...
...done well in its goal to make Harvard’s curriculum more conducive to spending semesters abroad, the fact remains that some concentrations are simply not amenable to time away from Harvard. For instance, it can hardly be expected that all Engineering Sciences concentrators—with a mammoth 20 required credits for a Bachelor of Science degree—will study abroad. Government concentrators, with a more manageable 10-14 required credits, enjoy a more flexible curriculum and could be more apt to spend a semester abroad. Even if the College goes forth with the proposed 12-credit...