Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimate of Chinese reserves, a 1977 guess by the American Petroleum Institute, puts them at 20 billion bbl.; if those reserves were proven, China would rank ninth in the world. The CIA has a far higher estimate: 39 billion bbl. below dry land and perhaps that much offshore-a grand total that would place China neck and neck with the Soviet Union for second place, behind Saudi Arabia...
...reflected in The Romance of American Communism, that image is sympathetic, generous but not clearly focused. She takes the complexities of idealism and motivation and submerges them into a provocative simile for destructive sexual desire. Even the selected evidence of her own interviews cannot adequately support such a grand moral vision...
Because they heat animal tissue, medical science has found a place for microwaves in its grand scheme. Medicine uses microwaves for diathermy machines, which heat tumors. Medicine has also found that certain microwave frequencies cook mice. And since then, experience has taught us that microwaves are blinding, carcinogenic, and genetically damaging--to human beings...
...smaller, en masse, instead of simply talking about it. The resulting products are leaner, tighter, more economical and technically sophisticated than any other crop of vehicles in the industry's history. Detroit's scale-down is already showing up in car-rental agencies. National calls a Pontiac Grand Prix a full-size car and charges accordingly, even though what the driver gets is a vehicle about as big as yesteryear's intermediate...
...with a big budget for a change. Considering the gifts he has given us over the years, one must also be happy for his happiness, and for this lavish demonstration that even the greatest of artists is only human, that is to say, capable of self-indulgence on a grand scale...