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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 Tim Webb 2010

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 2011

• 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 2011

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 2011

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 Simon Nixon 2011

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 2011

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 Simon Nixon 2011

• 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 2011

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 Jessica Mead 2011

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 2009