Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hence the sheer volume of volunteers: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that charities are needed more now than they were just five or ten years ago. In New York City there are about 35,000 people living on the streets, compared with 500 a decade ago. AIDS, which alone has pulled thousands of people into action, did not exist. Crack, which has perhaps done more to ruin children than any other drug, did not exist. "Volunteerism is as old as the nation," says Winifred Brown, executive director of New York City's Voluntary Action Center...
...have nearly doubled, to $300 million, and average attendance is up . nearly 4,000 seats a game, to 13,420. At home the Bulls sold out more games over the past 18 months than they had during their entire 22-year history. In a sport that too often becomes sheer drudgery -- the season begins around Halloween and can end as late as mid-June -- Jordan is one of only a handful of NBA players who truly seem to enjoy themselves. Jordan plays as if what he calls "the best job in the world" might be gone tomorrow. He even...
...DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS: A LEXICON NOVEL by Milorad Pavic (Knopf; $19.95). A wacky, totally fabricated reference book, translated from Serbo-Croatian, about a people who vanished centuries ago. Sheer oddity mixed with eerie entertainment...
...next 30 years, for example, the population of Kenya (annual growth rate: 4%) will jump from 23 million to 79 million; Nigeria's population (growth rate: 3%) will soar from 112 million to 274 million. Expansion is slower in Brazil, China, India and Indonesia, but in those countries the sheer size of existing populations translates into a huge increase in people...
Because of its sheer size and influence, the U.S. must be in the vanguard of the effort to solve the earth's environmental crisis. Even before international bodies come up with global strategies, the U.S. can take many steps, unilaterally and immediately...