Mr Cowen has toiled to put things right since becoming Prime Minister in 2008, but in his 30 months in office he never looked like getting a grip on the gigantic problems.
The clearest lesson to be drawn out of this week's back and forth in the eurozone is this: Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and the other single-currency heads of state have no intention of changing their tactics in tackling the gigantic problems facing Greece.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a Democrat who has been part of the bipartisan talks, wrote on Thursday in The Washington Post that "we are waiting for politicians to quit drawing lines in the sand and admit that solving this gigantic problem in a time of divided government means that both sides will have to give ground".
A sustainable solution to this gigantic problem, which affects every populace, is through more efficient solid waste management.
The body to watch is the Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC), which claims 44 of the 74 Democrats in the Texas House (there is not one Hispanic Republican there, a gigantic problem for the party).
Just because you exist on planet Earth doesn't give you the right to download the game because you're upset at The Man. Besides, for every knucklehead seeding the game on BlackCats, Ubisoft can say, "See, piracy is a gigantic problem on the PC".
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It could represent a gigantic problem for the Mets, who have had trouble scoring runs anyway.
State officials have instead chosen to use one English test to assess every high school student in the state, which has caused another fairly gigantic problem: How do you create a single graduation exam for 200,000 seniors when some are heading to the Ivy League and others to pump gas?
Further, they are supposed to be readying themselves for the gigantic monetary problem of 4 million homes that will likely enter foreclosure this year.
