Trillion (tril – yen)
Trillion is defined as:
“a number represented by 1 followed by 12 zeros or an indefinite but very large number.”
It seems like the folks in Washington, D.C have successfully made the leap from billions of dollars to trillions of dollars. What amazes me is how little uproar there is from the government funders (AKA taxpayers) as these massive numbers are bandied about.
Can you use it in a sentence?
“The Congressional Budget Office on Friday said that, if the Obama budget unveiled last month were approved, the federal government would run deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion a year over the next decade.”
. Aptly subtitled “Becoming the Person Others Will Want to follow,” 
outlines the qualities and provides supporting examples.
Republic and recently became the President of the European Union. Here is what the New York Times 
did not disappoint. The book is a memoir of his life growing up in the fifties and sixties. While I was not born until the sixties, I can relate to many of the attitudes from the earlier decade.
I woke up this morning to a snow-covered lawn and car windows that need scraped. So much for harbingers of spring. I should have known that winter had not quite let go as a frequent guest at our feeder, the 
really say, “Let them eat cake” when told that the peasants did not have bread? Did the peasants have their fill when they later said “off with her head?”
. You will not be surprised to hear that Arabs (AKA Everybody from the Middle East, except Israel) hate us. You may not even be surprised to hear that the French hate us. Who cares about the French? I prefer Freedom Fries anyway.