"How urgent can this be if I tell you this is a great crisis and, at the time we're marching to war, I give the single largest tax cut in the history of the United States of America?" Biden said.
Given that he has spent much of the past six decades preaching against the follies of material wealth it was perhaps only natural that the Dalai Lama today gave away the single largest annual monetary award given to an individual.
Baghdad gives Russian companies the single largest share of its oil quotas -- 40percentt -- under a United Nations-imposed program that allows Iraq to sell oil to earn money to buy food and other essentials.
Given that electricity is the single largest element of lease operating expenses industry-wide, that's a big deal.
Tropical dry deciduous forests burned more frequently and had the largest number of fires in any given year as well as the single largest fire (9900 ha).
"Given that this project represents the single largest transit investment ever made by the Federal Transit Administration, the secretary and governor agreed to have staff work together to further refine the estimated cost of the entire project," said Brian Farber, a spokesman for the transit administration.
In December 2006, the Government of the Netherlands, for example, contributed US $201 million for education in emergencies and post-crisis transition programmes run by UNICEF over four years, giving the children's organization the single largest donation ever in its 60-year history.
Notably, $135 million was provided through a challenge gift from Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the Weill Cornell Board of Overseers, and his wife, Joan, as part of their historic $250 million pledge in 2007 -- believed to be the single largest gift ever given to a medical school.
The donations are the single largest ever grant given to UNICEF in the region and will benefit an estimated 100,000 children in the Amazon.
The single largest reason given for failing to purchase broadband access in America is price, and many non-adopters are stymied by hardware fees, a lack of billing transparency and the extra cost of bundled services that providers often add to internet access.
