More than requiring the untangling of colossal red tape, saving New York and the whole region for the centuries ahead will become a test of civic unity.
The truth is that Labour's pre-crisis budget deficit of £39bn, or 2.7% of GDP, was dwarfed by the colossal cost of saving Britain's failing banks which by 2009 was equivalent to 90% of GDP.
The truth is Labour's budget deficit then of £39bn or 2.7% of GDP was dwarfed by the colossal cost of saving Britain's failing banks, which by 2009 was equivalent to some 90% of GDP.
Much was made of the seven set points, five in the first set, that Djokovic failed to convert prior to the tie-breaks and the fact that Federer once again demonstrated his colossal mental strength by saving them.
The Second World War had destroyed all the colossal isms save one, Communism, and it had no future in America.
Wendy Brown decided not to cross the picket line to teach her undergraduate course in modern political theory, but said, "To cancel a class in the name of saving education feels like a colossal contradiction".
"Schoenberg: Gurrelieder" (EMI Simon Rattletle, making his mark as the Berlin Philharmonic's new maestro, saves this colossal late-Romantic masterwork from its own excess with a performance swathed in Impressionist colors and dispatched with boyish energy.
The banks save a colossal sum from shutting their branch networks (eventually they will nearly all go) and making us do the work the bank tellers used to do.
And given that David Cameron confirmed today that the health budget is sacrosanct, and education is bound to be protected too, that leaves a colossal sum to be saved from benefits and from public services which have already been subjected to pretty intensive fiscal liposuction.
It was, Gates said in his office a month later, a colossal bore: "I was sitting there on that panel thinking, We're talking about saving three million lives a year here.
