Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They know everything about you. They know your name, your social security number and how many credit cards you have. Their tools range from monstrous orbiting surveillance satellites and miniscule listening devices. If you are on their enemy list, they can destroy your family, your credibility, your finances and your life by pressing a few buttons. Their state-of-the-art technology makes them omnipotent and omniscient in this computer age, utilizing the Internet, telephone lines and microwave transmissions to pinpoint your location and observe your actions anywhere you try to hide. Even though most conspiracy theorists profess the above...
...sure, traditional sports retain huge audiences and monstrous marketing clout; the Super Bowl is watched by almost a billion people every year. But the era of the three-sport nation may be coming to a close just as surely as the era of the three networks. Experts forecast a future of a thousand TV channels, which will be looking for even more sports programming...
...only 43 percent of the construction. The construction was originally projected to be finished by 1998, then 2000, and then 2002. The current estimate is 2004, but many Bostonians agree that they'll be dealing with the Dig for at least another 10 years. The entire cost of this monstrous public works project--the biggest engineering feat since the Panama Canal--is $10.8 billion; 70 percent being funded by the generous U.S. government after years of haggling and 30 percent by exploited Massachusetts tax payers watching the prices of highway tolls skyrocket over the years...
...folding tables that fill the yellowing walls of the church cafeteria. The scents of stale cigarette smoke and Aqua Net periodically waft into the crowded room as peddlers in blue aprons circulate selling instant Lotto cards. All eyes gaze up at the main stage where numbers dance around the monstrous Bingo Board. The hypnotizing pop of the gyrating bingo balls is only broken by the clickity-clack of chips flying across the players' boards as each selected number is called out over the inaudible PA system...
Brazilians sardonically call their monstrous public bureaucracy O Trem da Alegria--the Joy Train. It is ridden by millions of officials like Cesar Almeida, mayor of a working-class town near Rio de Janeiro. The Globo TV network revealed last month that he has manipulated the system so cleverly that he earns $22,000 a month--twice the salary of the country's President--while teachers earn as little as $70 a month. Brazil was able to finance that kind of waste when foreign capital was pouring in. But now, with the global financial crisis sucking hundreds of millions...