Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vistas sweep toward tall monuments that honor the struggle for liberation and pay homage to President Kim Il Sung, whose name and image are everywhere. Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President...
...scandal started in 1958 when Distillers Co., a huge British conglomerate known best for selling Scotch and gin, heavily advertised and sold a dangerous tranquilizer, Thalidomide, without adequately testing its effect on pregnant women. Before Distillers finally pulled the drug off the market, in 1961, some 450 tragically deformed babies were born in England, with flippers instead of arms and legs, or no limbs...
...largest oil companies released first-quarter profit figures, and they showed an acceleration of the winter-long earnings surge. Included in the group were six of the so-called Seven Sisters,* the richest and most powerful oil companies in the world, which, more so than their smaller competitors, have huge investments in all four aspects of the business: drilling, transporting, refining and marketing...
TOMORROW THE U.S. anti-nuclear movement takes its case to Washington D.C. A huge demonstration and a public trial of nuclear power is planned for the afternoon, and organizers hope (and half-expect) it to be the largest U.S. anti-nuclear demonstration ever. No longer content to protest individual nuclear facilities with individual anti-nuke groups, the movement has progressed to a stage of unified action to put pressure where it counts--on the government...
...around the rules. The Australian aborigines also find themselves sitting on much of Australia's potential uranium supply. Like the Native Americans, they consider these uranium mountains sacred. They even have a legend about them, which says that if even one of those mountains is disturbed, a huge snake will emerge to destroy the world...