Wal-Mart has more than 4,000 total stores in the U.S. "Wal-Mart is not a business in crisis by any means, but the magnitude of the task facing Doug McMillon and David Cheesewright in their respective new roles is immense," wrote Planet Retail analyst Stephen Springham in a note to clients.
Still, these challenges pale beside the immense write-offs the company absorbed last year.
There remains the sense that this is a globetrotting adventure that successfully utilizes the immense writing talents of its development team, but that it also wants you to feel like you're more in control, rather than everything being on rails.
The director, Jerusha Hess, made her name co-directing Napoleon Dynamite, and the producer, Stephenie Meyer, made her name and immense fortune writing the Twilight saga books.
Although Gaskell was a novelist of immense range, writing about industrialization as well as social manners, she was a rung below the greatest of her century.
"The benefit to American culture, to American prestige, and the word is not too big to mankind would be immense," he wrote.
"The public relations machines of today's bankers may be even more effective than those of Morgan and Rockefeller, although the campaign contributions and control of the Senate exercised by those titans was immense," he wrote.
But you can write immense poems in iambics.
Stanistreet said that journalists at some national newspapers were under immense pressure to write inaccurate stories and not speak out publicly for fear of reprisals.
It gives me immense pleasure to write the editorial of an emergent journal in a most vital area like coal science and technology.
It gives me immense pleasure to write the Foreword to this Special Dedication Issue containing essentially the duly-refereed Proceedings of the International Congress in my Honour which was held on 23-26 August 2012 at the auditorium of the Görükle Campus of Uludağ University in Bursa (Turkey).
