Bernard Madoff's wife, Ruth, who has said little to nothing since her husband's enormous Ponzi scheme collapsed in December 2008, did her part.
He ate dinner at home and then worked another two to three hours, however long he could keep his enormous head from collapsing.
As the Iraqi Army (built at enormous American expense) collapsed before the ISIS onslaught, Kurdish leaders sent the peshmerga — the Kurdish army — into a wide swath of largely Kurdish-populated areas that were, until then, held by the government in Baghdad.
At the Centrale, I spend the usual hour standing around, watching a crew with a giant spider-like cherry picker remove a swimming pool sized Longines ad from the terminal wall, collapsing enormous plastic sheets that depict Australian actor Simon Baker gingerly touching a horse's face.
It would take a collapse of enormous proportions for the Americans to lose.
Indeed, Indonesia faces enormous problems -- economic collapse, political turmoil, social instability, debilitating corruption and, yes, widespread violence and local wars.
After all, investors' inability to analyze the loans in these pools during the mania led to enormous losses in the collapse.
But the credit boom also inflated an enormous housing bubble, whose collapse precipitated a financial crisis brought on by defaults on those very subprime mortgages.
A 47-year-old former theatrical director, he is one of a small group of tycoons who have acquired enormous influence since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On Sunday an enormous cornice failure — a collapse of overhanging snow — outside Haines in the area called Kicking Horse Valley claimed the life of another heli-skiing guide when the snow gave way beneath him.
And the BBC and Voice of America, as well as the increasing availability of television sets and VCR's, are thought to have played an enormous role in the collapse of the Soviet empire.
