eye-watering

During that time, government debt has risen to an eye-watering 220% of GDP and the government will this year run a deficit of 10% of GDP, the highest in the world.

U.K. Has Plenty to Learn From Japan

Meanwhile, Standard & Poor's announcement on April 18 that it had revised its outlook on the U.S to negative focused the market's attention on the U.S.'s eye-watering fiscal deficit and the current political stalemate there.

Dollar Isn't in a Crisis, but a Rout Could Come Quickly

• Board a pleasure boat on the Nile, where the capital's denizens come out to play in a fiesta of ear-splitting Arab pop beats and eye-watering neon.

Back to the Middle East: Egypt needs your holiday money

Each painstaking snip rang through the hangar-like space with eye-watering reverberation, made worse by the thought of that horrid trail of half-mooned leavings under foot.

O tempora, O mores

A beautiful three-bedroom townhouse in one of London's most expensive addresses (Regent's Park) costs an eye-watering £1,350–£2,150 a day (sleeping up to 10) but a rustic timber retreat on Australia's Great Ocean Road sleeping up to six is a more affordable £115.

One Fine Stay in London

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an eye-watering $1,900bn (£1,200bn) a year needs to be spent on roads, rail, telecoms, electricity and water every year until 2020.

How pension funds can plug the investment gap

Its credit-default swaps leapt to an all-time high: It now costs an eye-watering $1.6 million a year to insure $10 million of its debt against default for five years, according to Markit.

Overheard

Even if bondholder haircuts were increased to 60%, Greece would still need a €109 billion bailout and its debt-to-GDP ratio would still be an eye-watering 110% in 2020.

Crunch Time for Franco-German Relations

That eye-watering sum has spurred talk that a "hard market"—insurance talk for a time in which firms can charge higher premiums—may finally be within reach.

For Insurers, Bad—but Not Bad Enough

And under that main piece in the English and Northern Irish editions of the paper, a rant about the English being forced to pay "eye-watering" prescription charges, while others get medicines free.

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