Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...documents uncovered by the Glenn committee indicated that a major concern at the Hanford facility was the release of huge numbers of plutonium particles. The problem, dating at least to 1947, was traced to corroded fan duct work in the stacks of two chemical separation plants...
...money-laundering center can be spotted by the huge surplus of cash that flows into the local branch of the Federal Reserve System. In 1985 the Miami branch posted a $6 billion excess. But after several years of intense federal probes of South Florida banks, Miami's cash glut fell last year to $4.5 billion. Much of the business went to Los Angeles, where the cash surplus ballooned from $166 million in 1985 to $3.8 billion last year. Despite such rocketing growth, the staffing of federal law-enforcement offices in L.A. still lags far behind the levels in Miami...
Rather than just applauding what he has done, let us examine why. When Gorbachev came to power he found he was presiding over a military superpower and a Third World economic power. His clients in Cuba, Viet Nam, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua required huge subsidies. Afghanistan was costing lives as well as money. In Eastern Europe the explosive forces of dissent were building dangerously. The stagnant Soviet economy was falling further and further behind the West. Gorbachev's only option was to reform at home and retrench abroad...
...half the nation's 2,900 thrifts could eventually fail or be merged, voluntarily or involuntarily, adding billions to the $300 billion cost of the industry bailout. An early casualty: City Federal Savings Bank, New Jersey's largest thrift, was taken over by federal regulators on Friday, after recording huge losses from real estate ventures...
...without dwelling on the obvious, a huge social and cultural rift divides these two people. And the rift is becoming wider...