But trade figures released on Wednesday showed a staggering $19.2 billion deficit for November, which reversed a three-month improvement in trade flows.

A direct fiscal stimulus is precluded by the staggering $445 billion deficit expected for the year.

What followed were seven years of staggering deficits, with no end in sight.

Anything less is unacceptable, particularly when our country is in the midst of a recession, with a staggering federal deficit and a double-digit unemployment rate.

And her version of conservatism does not incur staggering, Reagan-size deficits.

The federal government is expected to run a staggering $1.4 trillion deficit for 2011, while total government debt now exceeds $14 trillion.

"We have staggering deficits, we have completely unsustainable debt."

Almost immediately, it had staggering deficits, which Mr. Rockefeller absorbed for a while.

This combination went on a spending spree under Ronald Reagan, leaving us with rusting weapons and a staggering deficit.

With this bill we begin dealing with one of the primary national problems: the staggering deficit and the astronomical debt.