Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exam at Sea. Yet the dramatic break with tradition did not solve the immediate problem of reopening the university to its 270,000 students. One dedicated physics professor administered his final examination on board the Staten Island ferry at night last week. The vast majority of students were in limbo while officials work out an agreement for emergency funding...
Jean Paul Getty was one of a not-yet-vanished American breed, the lone wolf operator who, through cunning, luck and a sharp sense of timing, builds vast wealth and a far-flung business colossus almost singlehandedly. "If I were starting again," he liked to tell visitors at Sutton Place, his 16th century estate outside London, "I'd do it the same way -exploring, wildcatting. If you hit it you get rich. If you don't you go broke...
...ridden planet. He takes the name Thomas Jerome Newton, seeks out a patent attorney named Oliver Farnsworth (nicely played by Buck Henry) and shows him equations for some elementary inventions from his own world. These creations-like self-developing film in fully automatic cameras-become the foundation of a vast industrial empire run by Farnsworth, who is answerable only to the mysterious, reclusive Newton...
...multinationals are frequently blamed for using secrecy to control vast networks of companies that have different names but belong to the same shadowy combine. The OECD would end all that. In the future, corporations would be required to make public complete descriptions of the activities of their principal affiliates in major areas of the world. Among other things, the multinationals would also have to list the number of their employees, report local sales and profits and disclose the amount of money invested in research and development...
...Because the new President is aware of the secret order and of Martin's guilt. Armed with that knowledge, he tries to indulge in a little friendly blackmail to get CIA files for use in the next election. This President, Esker Scott Anderson, is portrayed as a vast, salty-tongued, womanizing hick and a "pluperfect egomaniac" who dotes on the appointments of the presidential plane. (Even the candy wrappers aboard, Ehrlichman writes, come emblazoned with the words Air Force...