Leeches. Mammoth chunks. They even have their own Slurpee machine Out of Order. Come Back Yesterday.

Members also voted to withdraw part of the mammoth economy boosting package unleashed a year ago in the aftermath of Brexit.

Small elite bodies like the G 8 no longer work, but neither do mammoth meetings of the sort we saw in Copenhagen.

And after being totally and completely obsessed with the mammoth richness and history of Chinese culture, it was like this total relief to hear something so truly American and so truly awesome.

International organizations and Member States, together with other Habitat Agenda partners, are increasingly coming to terms with the mammoth challenge of dealing with rapid, poorly managed urbanization and the consequential proliferation of unplanned, unserviced slums and informal settlements.

But if you ask the government s supporters why there is no alternative to mammoth cuts in government spending and increases in taxes, they sound confused and incoherent. Or perhaps they are merely parroting talking points backed by little thought.

Some blame a global savings glut for this state of affairs, and call for less thrift. But if we were at full employment, we would recognize that the world still has mammoth growth opportunities, and to sacrifice future growth for current well being is a second best choice.

New Delhi A month after they first queued to vote in India s mammoth general election, the country s voters will learn the outcome on May 16. The election, staggered over five phases involving five polling days over four weeks, rather than one election day will determine who rules the world s largest democracy.

ABU DHABI Ever since hunter gatherers started to build their own dwellings some 14,000 years ago, homeownership has been a mark of high social and economic status. Today, the United States has built a mammoth financial bureaucracy to promote homeownership, and economists, bankers, politicians, and of course homeowners themselves keenly follow house price indicators.

The Bank of Japan already holds government securities worth 40 of GDP, and it is committed to annual purchases worth 16 of GDP within the framework of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s economic revitalization agenda. The mammoth size of the BOJ program implies that it has taken full control of the market for government paper.

A key source of this unrest is Tahirul Qadri, a Toronto based Muslim cleric who arrived in Lahore in early December. Ten days later, he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the city s Minar e Pakistan grounds, where, a year earlier, the cricketer turned politician Imran Khan had launched what he not very appropriately termed a political tsunami.

America depends on China s trade surplus and savings to finance its outsize budget deficits, while China relies on its huge exports to the US to sustain its economic growth and finance its military modernization. By plowing more than two thirds of its mammoth foreign currency reserves into US dollar denominated assets, China has gained significant political leverage.

Finally, there is the example of politicians like George W. Bush, who enacted a government program that promises comprehensive drug benefits to the elderly and mammoth profits to pharmaceutical companies. His administration may preach the virtues of individual responsibility, but its program makes no provision for how and where the government is going to secure the resources needed to finance its promises.