Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "Harvard manages its funds in a way that makes sense to Harvard. HEW has criticized us for not documenting our expenditures very well--but they did not find the right documents." Both are convinced that when the University is allowed to scrutinize the audit in detail, the vast majority of the discrepancies will be "negotiated away." Meanwhile, in the Office of Research Contracts on the third floor of Holyok Center, professors continue to apply for federal grants. Of the 100-odd pages in the handbook the Office gives to prospective grantees, a little less than half a page...
...authorized way in proves to be a shuttle bus. Bearing two Chrysler engineers and an average American car owner, pitifully eager for any word of mileage efficiency to come, it cruises along winding roads with nothing except trees in view. Nothing, that is, until the road opens on a vast stretch of black tarmac, 67 acres of it, set in the hills near Milford, a GM proving ground. Right in the middle, three circus-like tents and a maze of yellow rubber cones point skyward like the towers of some futuristic Camelot. A long line of odd-looking vehicles...
...Trafficking and addiction among West Germans have been rising at alarming rates over the past two years, especially in West Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and other large cities. Federal statistics indicate 43,000 known drug addicts in the country. But police estimate the real figure is twice that number. The vast majority are young Germans between the ages...
...currently being exploited as workers, in violation of the minimum age of 15 set by a 1973 I.L.O. convention that has been ratified by 15 countries. Since most of the children are working illegally, the total number is believed to be "infinitely larger" than the statistics indicate. "In the vast majority of cases," says the report, "working children are either unpaid or receive negligible wages...
...about 5,800 sq. mi., which is larger than Connecticut. The pulp factory and its ancillaries cost $400 million to construct. A companion plant is expected to be towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve...