And what about the escalating, often prodigious costs to upgrade? "If our constituency gets behind the program, the revenue will be there," he said.
Increasingly they have to share the prodigious costs of production in the unionized house, with its $10 million budget, 38 full-time employees and several hundred part-timers.
Like the arguments about a similar project at the Port of New York, those over the deepening of the Delaware have hardened -- in this case over the prodigious costs and the potential for endangering the wintering grounds of the blue crab as well as newly re-established oyster beds.
Recently, E. coli has been the predominant bacteria in research and production laboratories and plays a key role in the development of modern biological engineering and industrial microbiology, enabling foreign proteins to be produced in a prodigious and cost-effective way.
In Chicago, we also stare at prodigious debt-service costs after $544 million in C.T.A. borrowing the past four years, $100 million in mandated free and discounted rides annually, and a projected $136 million that must be diverted to Pace, the suburban transit provider, to handle soaring paratransit costs.
The investment followed the same formula as all his subsequent ones: he snaps up bargains in mature and dowdy industries with the help of prodigious borrowing, cuts costs (especially at head office) and then sells them on at great profit.That strategy has carried Mr Hart from strength to strength.
Chinese media say this is due to open in 2013 and will cost a prodigious 1.6 billion yuan ($250m).But Guangrao too will have a hard time turning Sun Tzu into a soft-power icon.
Neither house would disclose the cost of such prodigious entertaining.
It's a prodigious effort in time and cost ($2m spent).
But with three straight victories on their ledger, the Nets, who were then 15-20, crashed inexplicably, losing a home game to Boston that proved to be the start of a prodigious slide that may still cost New Jersey a coveted position in the playoffs.
