Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissidents? In Russia, there are only a handful, mostly intellectuals, writers and professionals who have achieved some success and even distinction. In the vast Soviet Union, with its 257 million population, Sakharov estimates that between 2,000 and 10,000 dissidents are "prisoners of conscience"; it is impossible to say how many others are still free. They are despised or regarded with suspicion or indifference by most of the population. Their significance does not lie in their numbers, but in the fact that they were driven to protest in the first place-and that their rulers are not sure...
...Russians are also trying to show that the U.S. itself is guilty of offenses against human rights. Unfortunately, the propagandists have not had to invent many of their charges. Racial discrimination and the Watergate scandal alone provide plenty of ammunition -despite the vast difference between an established policy of repression and a skein of individual abuses; every such event is grist for the Soviet newspapers...
...agenda with Jimmy Carter will be trade and the need to promote a new and healthier relationship between the two countries. Mexico is currently going through a grave economic crisis. Inflation is running at an explosive rate of 30%. Of Mexico's 63 million people, a vast number are either unemployed or, almost as bad, underemployed. The trade deficit has been growing steadily and now stands at $3.2 billion. Despite this, López Portillo has not gone abegging to the Oval Office, although he would like adjustments in a trade relationship that heavily favors the U.S. In fact...
...will let them charge no more than $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. for it. Instead, they have been selling the gas in the states where it is produced, mainly Texas and Louisiana, at uncontrolled prices of around $2. Indications are that the amounts of gas thus diverted are vast. Interstate pipelines took 67% of all new gas produced in the U.S. in 1967; in 1975, the last year for which figures are available, they got only...
...dramatization that set off this vast craving for the book and that reached so deeply into Americans' minds. Part of its success may have come from the use of familiar techniques of TV melodrama?with a twist: the heroes and heroines were black. Said black Historian Benjamin Quarles of Morgan State College in Maryland: "There was the threat of violence, the appeal of sex, all building up to a wonderful climax?all the things that make for good television...