Imagine you come up with the coolest, most brilliant idea ever - a work of staggering, mind-blowing genius - and nobody takes you seriously.
To trace it back to the first one, Pennsylvania's September 28 , 1850 is staggering; a mind-blowing collection of narratives and images and loss.
With these staggering numbers in mind, and as the nation's landfills run out of room and concerns mount about health and environmental hazards of trash incineration, Chinese authorities have begun to make domestic waste management a priority.
They bring to mind another staggering figure I recently came across that I have been unable to remove from my subconscious.
The implications of 7+ billion connected minds are staggering, and we need to be talking about it.
Certainly, Gingrich, the self-styled Destroyer and Savior of Civilization, must have been drawn to Toffler's contention in "The Third Wave" that visionaries must engage in the "mind-staggering" project of bulldozing government and "building a new civilization on the wreckage of the old".
Linked to the world's hive mind, I have staggering research and communications capabilities.
Brooks, staggering, shook his head.
I was just a kid trying to get a ball.' " If the Orioles do in fact draft Maier, there would not be much time for folks to wrap their minds around that staggering notion.
The BBC Springwatch presenter said: "As a society we are guilty of standing idly by as once common species, never mind the rarities, suffer staggering declines.
These are staggering statistics and worth keeping in mind if one is prepared to understand globalization from a world-wide perspective.
