Over the past 50 years, we've seen a number of gigantic policies produce disappointing results — policies to reduce poverty, homelessness, dropout rates, single-parenting and drug addiction.
There is no excuse for this, given that these swaps were merely gigantic insurance policies issued by public companies which knew that insurance and financial products must have sufficient capital and assets to cover claims.
But then nor do the Republicans; and it was they, after all, who oversaw the tax cuts, the entry into two wars and the financial collapse that are the source of most of America's gigantic deficit.In other policy areas, too, Mr Obama has got some big things right.
In each case, our purpose is to summarize what we see as the main lessons from the (gigantic) literature and draw policy implications.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). talked about energy policy from a gigantic Ben & Jerry's ice cream tub podium at the company's factory in St. Albans, Vermont, on Friday.
Despite the mythmaking about some of these big men, for the majority of South Africans, the gap between policy and progress remains gigantic.
Mr Kagame wants to see it fall to 30% by 2017.Mr Kagame claims success, too, in his foreign and trade policies, particularly towards his gigantic, chaotic neighbour, Congo.
This policy change might make several gigantic trials of so-called treatment-as-prevention in sub-Saharan Africa impossible to complete successfully.
Aside from the extortionate $26 entrance fee, the gigantic alabaster eyesore employed a no phones policy.
Aside from the extortionate £18 entrance fee, the gigantic alabaster eyesore employed a no phones policy.
