Firstly, the two wells are monstrously deep well, with over 3, 000 feet net shale thickness.

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Critics say cutting the top rate at a time of cuts would be "monstrously unfair" and "phenomenally immoral".

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Monstrously profitable productions such as Jurassic Park really are the stuff of Hollywood.

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Now 28, Riggs says he's still haunted by the story of a gentle, intelligent and yet monstrously deformed man shunned by society.

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Taxis, also deregulated, are now plentiful, but sometimes charge monstrously.

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Although we haven't tested these new chips ourselves, PC Perspective is reporting that an Impress study showed these new FX-series processors to be monstrously less efficient in cycles per watt of power consumption than Intel's.

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Sure, it's hard to imagine a reason for most people to pick up a DMP-B15 over a cheapish Blu-ray playing laptop -- the thing is monstrously thick, and can't even handle a traditional laptop-style screen orientation, only everything but -- but the hardware is reliable enough for kids to handle on the road, and the single-use makes it a good home Blu-ray player for plugging into that second HD-starved TV.

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