1.   And, perhaps, some people, at several levels, ought to be losing their jobs over this gross lack of attention to a now monumental problem.

2.   Forget for a moment the monumental ethical problems of such a world gone mad and dream a little.

3.   Gillespie writes a gripping chapter on the construction of the towers, showing in detail how the monumental problems of engineering and design were solved.

4.   Informix Corp., the Menlo Park software company that ran into a monumental accounting problem, said yesterday it hired Jean-Yves Dexmier as its chief financial officer.

5.   Rampant corruption has been a monumental problem for Russia and there have been allegations that it reached into the higher echelons of the government when Yeltsin was in power.

6.   The Hollands had no reason to suspect such a monumental medical problem.

7.   The sealed-off borders, however, do heighten an already monumental humanitarian problems.

8.   But the Summer Games also had to deal with monumental problems.