Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave us huge impetus. Credit the team with a lot of guts...
...push-button controls that let their owners save messages or dispatch replies -- to one person or to hundreds of people. Other systems are set up to dispense information, offering callers a menu of choices and playing the messages they select. The most powerful machines combine voice-message units with huge computer files, which enable callers to use their telephones to navigate through long lists of stock quotes or catalog items. Some units even allow a caller to order merchandise and charge it to a credit card, without ever speaking to a human...
...failure was all the more remarkable because some of Gorbachev's ideas have relatively little military significance. His unilateral reduction of 500 short-range nuclear weapons would come to about 5% of perhaps 10,000 the Soviets have available in Europe, and would leave the U.S.S.R. still enjoying a huge advantage over about 4,000 NATO nukes...
This month Spence announced an agreement that would ensure that FAS will eventually own the site. But designation of the land is just one part of a huge task facing the University--where to house its burgeoning supply of books and scholars...
...that, why should anyone take care of you after a horrendous traffic accident?" A fair question, since it points to the medical reality that what is merely an option for one individual can be a life-or- death matter for another. Still, until the U.S. is ready for the huge fiscal sacrifices that would make complete medical care available to all, some form of rationing -- with rules clearly established and given community support -- may be the only fair and practical answer...