Word: myriad
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...form of the cop or the university or the President-has diminished markedly in the last generation. However, a society that expects to keep challenge within reasonable bounds must retain a sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible businessman engages in fraud or embezzlement, but when he does it is apparent to the poor that...
Among the holdings they control from their law offices are the Marmon Group Inc., a diverse collection of businesses that last year had sales of $79 million, and the Colson Corp. ($12 million), a maker of food carts and other equipment. They also own a myriad of smaller companies in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia involved in mining and agricultural equipment, cement and fertilizer. Then there are 400,000 acres of timber and farmland in the South and Northwest, plus housing developments and shopping centers in Chicago, Las Vegas and Puerto Rico...
...Hersey's almost total reliance on direct quotes to tell the story. Irrelevant details abound throughout the book, dissipating most of the interest aroused by the terror of the actual episode. In their rush to publish the book, too, Hersey and his publishers have hurt the book. A myriad of proofing errors mar Hersey's pains-takingly-built facade of honesty...
While pay scales are a major factor, housing's cost problem reaches far beyond wages. The $24 billion industry has been fettered for decades by myriad little, mostly local ties that bind it to old-fashioned methods and an archaic organization. Each strand of that web reinforces the others&$151;enormously inflating the price of the final product...
...foot blond was wailing at my feet. Having lost her mother amongst the myriad legs which stood like a forest around her, she given up in dispair, plumped down in the dust, her screams blending into the songs, her tears streaking through red mascara, raining like drops of blood on her legs...