Included in that giant sum is not just Pentagon spending, but also outlays for intelligence, homeland security, foreign aid and diplomacy abroad.
It lets them pit workers against one another, divide the Democratic base, and promote the false idea that we're in a giant zero-sum game and the nation can't afford to do more.
As they raise the alarm over deficit spending and simultaneously squeeze popular middle-class programs, Republicans want the majority of the American public to view it all as a giant zero-sum game among average Americans that some will have to lose.
Motley has intimidated more than a few defendants in real life and collected giant sums for doing so.
But as college basketball (and football, too) became enormous business -- last fall CBS agreed to pay $6 billion for 11 more years of television rights to the N.C.A.A. tournament, starting in 2003 -- the giant sums of money have turned the N.C.A.A. into a secretive, petty, overreaching and unaccountable bureaucracy.
Bloomberg followed up with a powerful article about how Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan, has transformed the sleepy chief investment office, which takes care of the bank's treasury operation, into a unit that hires former hedge fund portfolio managers and slings around giant sums of money in what walks and quacks like prop trading.
Boeing's best hope was to convince Airbus that it was going to build a 747-killer of its own; if both companies made giant planes, both would lose giant sums of money.
In an effort to stem the flow of funds American and UAE officials are increasingly co-operating to catch the "cash couriers" – smugglers who fly giant sums of money into Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The greater impetus was from a succession of market-shaking crises made possible, the thinking goes, by the ease of moving giant sums of money around the globe without oversight.
I've been talking to him periodically over the years about how giant financial institutions should manage the aggressive traders slinging giant sums around the world in ever more complex transactions.
Regardless, the prolific summer fund-raising by both lawmakers underscores the giant sums of money that are dumping from both parties into down-ballot races this year, the intensity of the stakes, and how fund-raising has become both a top responsibility of the modern speaker and a means to holding on to that power at the top.
