With infrastructure costs so high (the needs are enormous and enormously expensive) and with the eyes in Washington increasingly focused on deficit reduction, the absolutely essential modernizing of the American infrastructure may not take place.
"But their needs are enormous," Daniel continued.
And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
"But clearly our needs are enormous," he said.
The dinosaurs' heads were not much larger than those of horses', but their caloric needs were enormous.
But every day's economic data reinforces the fact that the city's needs are enormous and immediate.
American public infrastructure needs are enormous but probably amount to about $200 billion a year at the absolute most, which is less than the euro-zone current-account surplus.
The Portuguese government is fostering the project, paying for teacher training in a language that almost no Timorese speak when other educational needs are enormous.
"The needs are enormous, and this was the only way we could figure out how to do it," Alan Fishman, the chairman of the foundation, said of its decision to change from a private charity to a community foundation.
The immediate needs are enormous.
