Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...
...mildly disgusted. Not by the pictures--they are actually quite tasteful for pornography these days--but rather by the popularity of such a pitiful monument to the adolescent fantasy life of the American Male...
...first acts would have to be to increase the national debt past $1 trillion. What an outrage, especially to a cost-conscious conservative! A trillion dollars--why, if you piled up that many $1,000 bills, Reagan told Congress, you would have a pile 67 miles high! "A monument to the policies of the past," said the new President, "which as of today are reversed." But since Reagan was also determined to increase military spending and to cut taxes (and since Congress was just as determined to stand guard over Social Security and other entitlement programs), there was only...
Diana has become a British national monument. According to one recent tally in The Book of Money Lists, the Princess of Wales is a bigger draw than Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament combined. In the past two years she has generated some $66.6 million in revenue from magazines, books and tourism...
They will sit in on a Senate hearing, witness the chaos of the floor of a stock exchange, and go high a top the Washington Monument...