The United States contends that the prodigious Middle Eastern trade in Iraqi scrap metal is closely monitored by Iraqi government ministries to ensure that nothing crossing the border poses a security risk or siphons material from new projects.
But Mr. Smith, in Federal District Court on Tuesday, described how he helped Mr. Rajaratnam add to his prodigious wealth by trading on illegal stock tips.
But "perhaps even more disturbing" was the report's allegation that the former CIA director George Tenet ignored warnings about "Curveball's unreliability" and deliberately withheld them from the then secretary of state, Colin Powell, "even as the administration was pushing [Mr Powell] out on to the world stage to trade his prodigious credibility for world support for the invasion".
Though it stocks fewer than half of his 53 published works, it is doing a brisk trade.Yet his prodigious literary output, ranging from poetry to law to sociology, is not what Joaquin Balaguer is best known for.
The same qualities that positioned them well in the pet trade -- intriguing camouflage pattern, prodigious reproduction -- make them nigh impossible to wipe out in a wilderness as complex and inaccessible as the Everglades.
Wall Street firms hate this idea because their prodigious profits will dwindle when derivatives are traded in the light of day, letting their counterparties see the true costs.
Sioux women were skilled at porcupine-quill and bead embroidery, favouring geometric designs; they also produced prodigious numbers of processed bison hides during the 19th century, when the trade value of these "buffalo robes" increased dramatically.
After all trade only impacts a limited number of voters, and Hillary's prodigious foreign policy skills will mask her hawkishness.
Where American blues (and rock'n'roll) still thrives on the unlikely story of Robert Johnson trading his soul to the devil in exchange for his prodigious talent, European jazz needs only look at Reinhardt's real life story for inspiration.
The share price was further depressed by the news that a prodigious lot of 3.1 billion previously locked shares held by institutional investors was released to trade freely starting Monday.
