WITH plans for 13.5m square feet of space, it was, and is, the biggest office-development project in London (indeed in Europe, bar the French state's gigantic scheme at La Défense west of Paris).
He spared neither men, money, nor himself in attempting to carry out a gigantic scheme for the colonization of the Ukrainian steppe; but he never calculated the cost, and most of the plan had to be abandoned when but half accomplished.
A gigantic pyramid scheme virtually bankrupted Albania after the fall of Communism.
Administration officials also want to prevent a repeat of the gigantic Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff.
But it eventually expands into something gigantic: a scheme involving an alphabet soup of federal agencies and the obligatory foreign terrorists operating on American soil.
After years of campaigning to save the bus station, which saw a gigantic retail scheme fought off and two attempts at listing turned down, Eddy Rhead of the Manchester Modernist Society is unimpressed with the conclusion to this long-running saga.
Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
This paper argues that if agents correctly believe in the possibility of a partial bailout when a gigantic Ponzi scheme collapses, and they recognize that a bailout is tantamount to a redistribution of wealth from non-participants to participants, it may be rational for agents to participate, even if they know that it is the last round.
Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world".Mark Madoff took his own life today," Martin Flumenbaum, Mark Madoff's lawyer, said in a statement".This is a terrible and unnecessary tragedy".
A senior executive who worked for Bernard L. Madoff for more than 30 years was arrested Thursday on federal fraud and conspiracy charges, including claims that he had helped Mr. Madoff survive a cash crisis that almost derailed the gigantic Ponzi scheme five years ago.
But the parallels were clear on Tuesday as Judge Lifland of Federal Bankruptcy Court listened for nearly four hours to impassioned arguments over a legal issue that will inevitably require him to hurt some victims of Bernard L. Madoff's gigantic Ponzi scheme and help others.
