It would be politically impossible to convert cars to natural gas or to ask for gigantic tax breaks in this time of austerity.
Once the news that the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets were orchestrating a gigantic trade broke Thursday afternoon, the N.B.A. draft might have gotten a little inferiority complex.
Midway through conference week, a gigantic kerfuffle broke out after Mr Osborne announced a plan to take away child benefit from higher-rate taxpayers, triggering howls from the conservative press that the party was anti-family.
Although the interior is pleasant, highly flexible, and has magnificent views, notably of the cathedral, that desire for views means the upper galleries stick out of the building like airport pods with gigantic windows, breaking the nice curves of the roof and the uplift of the spire.
Such techniques are crucial for the dream of quantum computers, which manipulate so-called qubits that are 1 and 0 simultaneously to solve some problems like factoring gigantic numbers to break codes beyond the capacity of ordinary computers.
Frankly, this congress, which positioned itself as an interactive forum for a gigantic transformational conversation, broke new grounds.
Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University in Tempe, called the discovery "gigantic" because it "breaks up the attractive link we've always made between large brains and stone tools".
And, as we wait, the massive doors swing open, an ethereal shaft of sunlight floods the dark, the roar of the city breaks the gigantic quiet, and there at the far end of the aisle stands the tall figure of a man.
THE travails of the Speyers are not that different from those of other investors who poured ever-larger sums into real estate during that delirious period when every day seemed to bring another gigantic deal at a record-breaking price.
