Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acres of land and forcing 1.3 million people to relocate to higher ground. The cranes on the site are hundreds of feet high, but they look like matchstick models until they are compared with the minute scale of the boats passing by on the river. This, then, is the size of China's dreams for the future--bigger and more ambitious than outsiders can imagine. Even within China, the dam has its opponents. But no one leaves Sandouping--resounding with trucks in low gear, clanking machinery and the occasional detonation of explosives--without being overawed by the size...
...shows on at the same time, the former on the USA Network, the latter on TNT. In the past year, the shows' combined Nielsen ratings have risen some 50%, and together they are watched in more than 6 million households. Larry King's audience is about a fifth that size. Taking all telecasts into account, about 34 million people watch wrestling each week...
...capacious and competitively priced SuperDisk by Imation, nor did I know about Sony's upcoming (and as yet unpriced) HiFD and Caleb Technology's UHD 144 (less than $100). I didn't bother to look into Iomega's Jaz (less than $300) or SyQuest's sub-$200 SparQ--gigabyte-size storage media that behave more like external hard drives than floppies...
...doing enough to stamp out cyber-smut, Holder reminded prosecutors that no web site is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect and would dispel any notion that obscenity distributors are insulated from prosecution if their operations fail to exceed a predetermined size," Holder wrote...
China demands an epic. The country has size, majesty, mystery, history. Not to mention the Great Wall, the Long March, the Hundred Flowers and the Great Leap Forward. (China also had a great marketing department.) A movie about China ought to be long, lush, cruel and beautiful -- all good and marketable qualities. So why did Hollywood make so few of them...