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.
His gifts as guitarist, singer and entertainer were prodigious but all were put into service as vehicles for the warmth and generosity of spirit with which he would, in public, envelop his audiences and, in private, routinely extend to fans, predecessors, peers and protégés.
His federal financial disclosure statements show Mr. Romney and his wife, their blind trusts and their family foundation to be prodigious consumers of the bank's services.
Adam Grant, the Wharton professor described in Susan Dominus's article, sounds extraordinary: prodigious in his accomplishments and in his service to others.
The reasons for this were quite straightforward: the DC-3 had already demonstrated its virtuosity; the superior DC-4 was entering service; and the country's prodigious production capability could satisfy most requirements.
A lifelong New Yorker, born in 1916, he graduated from Deerfield Academy and Princeton University, for which he became a prodigious fundraiser, winning awards annually for his loyal service to the university he loved.
Prodigious donations of water and food, shelter and services came in.
Ms. Winner argues that only "profoundly gifted" students -- with I.Q.'s over 160 or prodigious talents in art or music -- should receive special services.
Her prodigious fundraising from small donors and wealthy liberals is now in the service of her party through her donations to candidates and causes she believes in.
A PRODIGIOUS amount of money has been spent worldwide on putting government services online, but the results so far have been hard to measure and often disappointing (see chart 2).
