He had, for instance, called for a raft of military spending: growing the Army and Marines to a ridiculous size, building a Navy to reach a seemingly arbitrary and budget-busting number of ships, creating a mammoth air armada of fighter jets, pouring money into a missile defense boondoggle, and recruiting a legion of (presumably overweight) hackers to wage cyber war.
Even if researchers succeed in creating a mammoth, passenger pigeon or other extinct creature, it has to survive in the wild.
Apple sold 15 million iPads in nine months, created a mammoth new product category and started an industry of copycats.
Some critics have also argued that bilingual education has created a mammoth bureaucracy that is invested in perpetuating the program.
Or China again, which has created a mammoth network of pro-government internet commentators, known as the Fifty-Cent Partheamounttheyamount thearnarn for each favourable post.
It also means the ambitious effort to create a mammoth free trade area throughout North and South America by 2005, begun with such fanfare nine years ago, runs the risk of being downsized to a point of near irrelevance.
That mammoth debt, put Americans back to work, financed industrial production, underwrote a new generation of science and technology and created a wave of demand for consumer goods when the war ended.
In some individuals the mammoth cells would contribute to sperm or eggs, and these cells be used to create a genuine mammoth through IVF.
Judy Davidson writes about the night that she, her husband and their young kids shouldered the mammoth task of creating a Christmas celebration for a local homeless shelter.
And last year, she helped the jewelry designer Monique Péan win a CFDA award by creating a brand book with a 25,000-year-old 25,000-year-old 25,000-year-oldr.
