In fact, one of the most awe-inspiring things about Burning Man is the sheer scale resulting from the collective creative imagination of 40, 000-plus people.

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"The sheer pent-up demand ... is about to take hold, " President Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was quoted as saying in a speech Tuesday.

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"I didn't realize it was this big, " he confesses, speaking candidly about the sheer size of the 14-year-old company he's now shepherding.

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Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.

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But the sheer size of the bill has drawn criticism from lawmakers worried about a taxpayer-funded bailout.

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At home in Tel Aviv, Halvey talks about the politics and diplomacy of spying -- and the sheer responsibility of running a network of agents in the shadows.

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It wasn't -- it's not just about ensuring that there is -- that any compensation should be more directly tied to long-term equity versus short-term cash, but you have to make a strong evaluation about the sheer level and size of your compensation in the environment in which we exist.

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Few words were written about the sheer joy on the faces of hundreds of thousands of fans who watched inside trouble-free stadia.

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On day three, after about 60km of riding, we crossed the 3, 900m-high Tosor Pass, where a sheer cliff of ice and snow gave way to a narrow corridor with the shimmering Kerege-Tash Valley below.

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