Each year, the various camps of Black Rock City offer up a staggering grassroots program of events.
The staggering cost of the program has drawn renewed attention, as the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans wrangle over ways to cut the deficit.
While these figures are staggering, a new volunteer program is ready to tackle the challenge of getting former servicemen and servicewomen back into the workplace.
On paper, the Republicans would cut discretionary spending by "only" 14.3percentt, but since the fiscal year will be more than half over by the time the cuts become official, the actual cuts would be fully one-fourth -- a staggering cut for any program to bear and an insane economic idea during a severe downturn.
"When the numbers came in it was staggering," recalled Harvey Shephard, a programming consultant who was then senior vice president of CBS Entertainment. "I had never seen anything like it.
Despite having ruled Capitol Hill for a half-century, during which time they successfully enacted a staggering array of innovative programs, Democrats have been maddeningly slow to adapt their message to the postindustrial age.
The iPhone app store offers a staggering 50,000 instantly downloadable programs, in every conceivable category; it's become a crucial reason, maybe the crucial reason, to get an iPhone in the first place.
But instead, Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which already has a lively schedule, is ramping up to present a staggering array of public programs and some new exhibits so visitors can examine African-American history through different lenses.
A result has been the cynicism and fatigue of progressive voters who feel that the leadership has let them down on reversing staggering economic inequity, protecting social programs and pursuing desperately needed financial reform.
The 27-year-old German pianist Joseph Moog won young artist of the year; the judges hailed the imaginative approach he brings to programming and "a staggering technique [that] is always used to musical results".
