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These problems were probably not due to a vast right-wing conspiracy in the voting machine industry. (Though it’s not entirely clear that such a conspiracy doesn’t exist—a board member of Diebold Election Systems, the company which makes most of the touchscreen voting systems that have been deployed, did at one point guarantee he would deliver Ohio to Bush in 2004. The promise sounds even more ominous in hindsight.) Rather, most of the issues surrounded poor “calibration” of the touchscreen inputs—the machines would...
...quite diverse. For example, one of us is a committed Republican with generally conservative views on social policy, while the other is equally committed to a liberal social agenda. Both of us, however, ground our political views not in our shared commitment to Sabbath-observance, but in the vast corpus of Jewish law and tradition, the existence of which Sichel completely ignores...
Though the political parties have collected vast amounts of voter information in their secret databases, as your article pointed out, sometimes they don't realize that a person has died. My mother continues to receive her Republican Party membership card and pleas for donations, even though she died almost two years ago. I returned several pieces of mail and wrote DECEASED across the face of the envelope. I finally sent one back with the message "She's dead. Do you get it?" Still, her mail from the G.O.P. continues to arrive almost weekly. Maybe, since deceased voters have been known...
...latest foray into the CGI world which they created, will likely be relegated to a single category: “Best Animated Feature.” More than the actors or the creative team, the film’s computer-generated content will be the draw for the vast majority of its young audience. No matter how photorealistic the images, how human the voices, for most viewers the movie will primarily be seen as pixels on the screen. But not for Brad Bird...
...revealed that some kegs would again be permitted, but inexplicably House Committees would be the only organizations authorized to have them. The kegs would be purchased collectively from a single alcohol distributor, and keg beer would be controlled and served by licensed, bonded, professional pourers. This plan, while a vast improvement over the nonsensical 2002 ban, is still fundamentally flawed. Banning kegs last time around seemed only to encourage students to drink more hard liquor before and at The Game; having a limited number of controlled kegs is unlikely to prevent that unintended—and dangerous—outcome...