You might expect that, having learned of the existence of immortal life, man would dedicate colossal resources to learning how the immortal jellyfish performs its trick.
A free Independent, backed by Lebedev's colossal resources, would probably attract many more readers than it does as a paid-for title.
Mr. Putin sounded a note of frustration at a meeting of his National Security Council with top military commanders present, saying, "We spend colossal resources on the military, and we allow the military budget to be wasted on peripheral issues that have nothing in common with either the army's combat readiness nor with its direct supplies".
He begins in the villages of eastern Bihar with Deeti, soon to be widowed; her addicted husband, who works at the British opium factory at Ghazipur; and Kalua, a low-caste carter of colossal strength and resource.
This, he rightly points out, would be unfair to households and a colossal waste of resources.
To my surprise, I'm pretty sympathetic to the narrative, which seems to be saying that the mass-bureaucratic welfare state is a colossal misuse of resources.
Ever the liberal Democrat, she endorses capitalism despite its cyclical and colossal waste of resources and the human tragedy this imposes across the globe.
While many are mourning this loss, the last flight of the space shuttle instead provides an opportunity to rethink space exploration and a time to cut our losses from a failed programme that has been a colossal waste of resources, time and creative energy.
Another Reddit user pointed out the colossal amount of resources that likely went into such a minor drug bust.
The reality is that merit pay for teachers has been tried and failed numerous times and the research done by psychologists, economists and sociologists has found over and over again that in professions like teaching, this idea is a colossal waste of resources.
