Building a nuclear plant is an immense project, carrying a price tag of about $5 billion, lasting four or five years with peak employment of more than 2,000.
In 1984, when the Getty Trust commissioned the architect Richard Meier to design this immense project, the goal was to create a campus for the display, conservation, and study of high art; the Getty was not intended as a populist enterprise.
And there's plenty of reading to do with texts by Chris Kraus and Tan Lin, and with Peter Fend's minutely annotated collages, part of an immense project of news clips and e-mails detailing the effects of corporate power on ecology.
Alas for liberals, the tax debate isn't that simple, because it's taking place in the context of immense projected future deficits and a welfare state that seems unsustainable without substantial increases in revenue.
His immense project The Gates of Hell, out of which this and many of his other figures (including The Kiss) originate, was an attempt to recreate the portal to the underworld described in Dante's Inferno.
Instead, the immense project will not get under way for at least another year, and the feverish optimism it engendered here and across Zambia's Copperbelt region has evaporated.
In its marriage of artistic ambition and economic practicality, this immense project was a bit like the Depression-era W.P.A. (Athens enjoyed full employment for nearly half a century after the work began; Plutarch, in his life of Pericles, wrote that the projects "divided and distributed surplus money to pretty well every age-group and type of person").
A fascinating account of an immense project intended to produce charts for American whalers; the last all-sail mission to circumnavigate the globe, it logged 87,000 miles in four years but lost recognition when Americans took to expanding westward on the ground.
Its solution turned out to be, as Tashköprüzade was later to say, only a drop in the ocean of problems in 'ilm al-wad'; once one took the notion of imposition seriously, implementing it as a general explanation for the relation between expression and meaning turned out to be an immense project which carried on into the twentieth century (Weiss 1987: especially 341 345).
Committed in his own mind to making the film for more than a decade, Wayne sank more than $1 million of his personal funds into the immense project, in which he not only starred, but produced and directed as well.
