Word: vastly
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...mainstream leader is quite ready to renounce socialism for the C word. Even Gandhi, who godfathered the middle-class surge, fears the fallout when less fortunate voters go to the polls later this month for parliamentary elections. For the past six months, he has turned his attention to promoting vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice but to do the same. Says Surjit Bhalla, an economist with...
Indian leftists counter that Gandhi is leaving India's vast numbers of poor people in the lurch. They argue that government resources are being diverted to help the well-off minority, who in turn are frittering away vital funds on luxury goods. Rajni Kothari, a widely respected social scientist, is worried that the middle class is dangerously insensitive to the desperately poor. Says he: "There is a disturbing decline in compassion, in charity, in pity...
...Chris Van Allsburg. The children's illustrator and author creates books that abound in dramatic perspectives, teasing narratives and haunting, incongruous images. Other authors may try to improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...
...toward them. Bush squared himself, picking up the Sandinista comandante in his peripheral vision. He was poised for this power game that is played with body language and photo opportunities. Adversarial heads of state strive to gain a psychological edge over one another and to make points with the vast electronic audiences that watch these dramas. In this odd world where image is the message and sometimes the meaning, the outcome can be critical. Bush vs. Ortega is not a World Series, but it is a ( measure of Bush's response to a defiant bush leaguer. "Not a relaxed setting...
...tritium in question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported...