Word: sheerness
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...very well, it seems. Security clearances have been handed out to some 4.2 million people in the U.S., an unmanageable amount that cannot be effectively monitored. "The scope of the problem is just unbelievable," said Georgia Senator Sam Nunn. So many people seek clearance these days that the sheer numbers seem to have overwhelmed the agencies responsible. The Defense Investigative Service will conduct about 220,000 investigations this year and also complete 900,000 nonsensitive clearance checks for federal agencies. In the past decade, its work load has increased by 40%. Some security clearance requests seem frivolous: companies seek them...
Decades later, when he returned as a New York Times correspondent, Malcolm discovered that Canada was more different than ever. In subsequent voyages by car, jet, helicopter and dog sled, he found an immense, diverse continent-country, thinly populated by a talented but strangely self-deprecating people. The sheer size of their land is intimidating: its smallest province. Prince Edward Island, is almost twice the size of Rhode Island; to drive west from Toronto to the next large Canadian city, Winnipeg, takes 36 hours nonstop. Canadians, he learned, are literally a nation apart, their identity splintered by endless geography into...
...hours spent in the studio, students are spurred less by rigid deadlines than by the sheer talent and expertise surrounding them. Weekly screenings, for example, bring first-rate animators from around the world to discuss their work. Visiting Lecturer Piotr Dumala is himself a master animator, and arrived with a hefty list of international film awards stretching back to his debut in the early 1980s...
Student dancers’ concerns about insufficient rehearsal space may be partially due to the recent rapid growth in their sheer numbers. Bergmann says that when the OFA last investigated dance participation at Harvard in fall of 2002, they estimated participation in Harvard’s 23 student dance groups and various open classes to be 700 undergraduates, an astonishing 10 percent of the undergraduate population. She estimates that an up-to-date count would reveal an even larger number. In the past five years, enrollment in the OFA’s dance classes alone has doubled to approximately...
...result of Chandler’s sloppiness is that all the insights and compelling information that do appear seems to be sheer accident rather than the work of a skillful writer. The interviews, though entertaining, do not give a complete portrait of Hitchcock, and the evidence surrounding them is not adequately investigated. We are asked to simply take people’s word for it, without any conclusions reached...