Word: copious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been trying with scant success for years to persuade Americans to dump their Ford and Chevy pickups--the cowboy Cadillacs of the heartland--for a Toyota. Spending hours observing folks as they tailgated, hitched up horse trailers and hauled everything from plywood to goat sheds, the Japanese took copious notes, even if they still couldn't quite understand the American lovefest with the pickup. "There was a level of amazement," says Jim Press, chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A...
...identities. His great-grandfather, Leo Baekeland, was the inventor of Bakelite and the "father of plastics." His parents fancied themselves aristocrats. They socialized with Greta Garbo and Tennessee Williams, the Duchess of Sutherland and Yasmin Aga Khan. But they were vagabonds, getting by on good looks, lordly manners and copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony's gifts than in providing the selfless attention...
...best way to overcome the problem of radon pollution in homes is by copious ventilation, made easier by providing cheap energy to replace lost heat. But cheap energy is not going to be available to Americans because of the country's attitude toward nuclear power, which is the cheapest, safest, cleanest form of energy. Jocelyn Maxwell Red Hill, Australia
...added that Weitzman took a back road when he went on these excursions for manure, and she speculated that he sold the copious amounts of excrement in the market...
...antiviral medications should something go awry. For his research, Russell likes the measles virus, in particular, the modified strain of the virus used for more than five decades in the measles vaccine. That weakened form has a special fondness for tumors, lured there by a protein expressed in copious quantities on the surface of malignant cells. As part of an ongoing trial in ovarian-cancer patients, Russell's colleague Dr. Eva Galanis constructed a measles virus that could also churn out a protein that can be picked up in the blood, allowing the investigators to measure how well the virus...