Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilian and military advisers in Afghanistan attest to Moscow's interest in the country, Kabul is not Prague or Budapest, where tanks can be rolled in quickly to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine. Afghanistan does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities like a huge beltway. The country is bisected by the towering Hindu Kush Mountains, and there are few feeder roads. One result: there are still only loose connections between the dominant Pathans and the Uzbek, Hazara, Turkoman, Baluchi and nomadic tribes that make Afghanistan, as James A. Michener once described...
Even the South Africans now realize that the huge territory they have ruled under a long-expired League of Nations mandate is on the verge of becoming independent. But in the past two years South Africa has spent at least $1 billion on economic and military aid in an effort to ensure that Namibia's first independent government will be one that can be lived with comfortably. South Africa last week staged elections in Namibia?not under U.N. auspices, as Pretoria had previously promised, but on its own terms. (See pictures of South Africa...
...increasing isolation in huge organizations of professional people like accountants and computer technicians, which makes their meetings particularly welcome and valuable...
...methods are as imaginative as those of any high-octane huckster. As part of New York City's bid for the 1976 Democratic National Convention, a city meeting scout carried a huge styrofoam apple filled with real apples to the site selection committee...
...service invited more than 200 speakers to four ten-hour public meetings last week. To standing ovations from the 300-member audience, critics flailed the IRS for taking so broad-gauged an action without the authority of new legislation, and for so broadly threatening religious schools. Ironically, even huge and integrated school systems like that run by the Roman Catholic Church, whose minority students nationwide average 16% enrollment, feared that their tax exemptions might nevertheless be endangered as a result of statistical quirks. As U.S. Catholic Conference Spokesman William Wonderly pointed out, "The IRS is mixing apples and oranges, because...