Still, these challenges pale beside the immense write-offs the company absorbed last year.
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.
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.
I guess if I owed my whole career to someone else's immense song-writing talent, I would be bitter too.
"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.
The Fathers, all male as their designation indicates, left behind an immense body of writing, known collectively as the Greek and Latin patrology.
But you can write immense poems in iambics.
"The potential consequences of this bioenergy accounting error are immense," the committee wrote.
