Word: mammothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told the Washington Post on Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based) or dip into the Social Security trust fund. But they?re also loath to cut into programs that voters want, programs that Clinton can excoriate them for slicing up. So voil? ? the millennium just got a little longer...
Last summer also saw the beginning of the $52 million, two-and-a-half year renovation of Widener's stacks. The mammoth project will not only prevent the further decay of books but add air conditioning and two new reading rooms. Although the project has inevitably caused disruptions to library users, we commend the conscious attempt to minimize these inconveniences...
...business famous for stale popcorn, rickety seats and sticky floors, first-class cinemas may sound like a bad joke. But with a surfeit of mammoth megaplexes filling cities and suburbs, theater owners seem willing to try anything to make their marquees stand apart from the crowd. General Cinema is teaming up with Robert Redford to launch a Sundance chain of art houses...
Once upon a time we really cared about our cars, and why not? Draped in chrome, sleek Lincolns and Cadillacs boasted bulbous front bumpers and mammoth tail fins that just screamed power. Smooth street rockets like the Chrysler 300 were breathtakers, although they could seem insignificant next to the glamorous elegance of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche designs. Sex was styled into every curve in those days. Under the hoods growled throaty tigers that guzzled gas, although everyone knew cars really ran on testosterone...
...mammoth renovation of the library that began this summer is designed to save the collection from years of abuse by heat, humidity and sunlight...