Word: amassive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What makes Bahrain so potentially significant is that Western banks no longer have a virtual monopoly on handling the huge surpluses that the members of OPEC regularly amass-as much as $117 billion this year alone. Instead, a new breed of Arab-owned banks is picking up an expanding percentage of the action. Though new to the game, some of these institutions are starting off with formidable monetary bases. Begun in 1977, Gulf International Bank has assembled assets of nearly $3 billion and is competing with the big U.S. financial institutions in loan underwriting. The newly founded Arab Banking Corp...
Another factor in the success formula has to be this year's freshmen. Coach Bill McCurdy managed to amass a stellar contingent of Yardlings, who filled many traditionally weak areas and set a distinctively ebullient, young tone for the squad...
This decade's census is one of the biggest, costliest and most ambitious statistical exercises in history. Using 120 million forms, 5,000 tons of paper and 85 tons of ink, the survey will amass and tabulate more than 3 billion answers and record them on 5,000 miles of microfilm. To process this avalanche of data, the Census Bureau has had to design (and patent) special scanning equipment that will be plugged into a giant UNIVAC 1100 computer around the clock for months. Meanwhile, an army of 250,000 census takers, or "enumerators," and 15,000 office workers...