Word: vastness
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Ever since Howard Hughes died in an air ambulance over Texas early last month, a frantic search has been under way to find the will of the reclusive billionaire. Unless a valid last testament is found, Hughes' vast estate, estimated at $2.3 billion, is certain to become the subject of the largest probate battle of all time. Last week what was said to be Hughes' will suddenly appeared in Salt Lake City, but the document seemed more likely to cause new legal problems than to resolve the old ones...
Most developing nations dream of striking it rich and becoming a global power almost overnight. Can it be done? Iran would seem to have a chance if any nation does. Using its vast oil revenues, the country is well into a bold $70 billion, six and a half year development program. New industries, notably steel, autos and synthetic fibers, helped Iran to boost gross national product to a record $54 billion last year (from $26 billion in 1973) and raise per capita income to a healthy $1,570 (from $806); just about any adult in the population of 36 million...
Although proponents of the insurance package may point to the maternity benefits as an alternative available to a pregnant woman--thus providing coverage for all women regardless of their decision on abortion--the fact of the matter is, that in this community, the vast majority of the funds would go to abortions...
Help--the way it has since World War II? The vast American loans, which the author of Berlinguer and the Professor, along with most Americans, envision as the mainstay of the Italian economy, have indeed contributed to an economic boom; one which has served only to widen the gap between rich and poor in Italy. The greatest amount of American "aid" has probably been CIA payoffs, Lockheed graft, or similar bribes to the ruling political structure, the Christian Democrats. This money promptly crossed the frontier into Swiss banks. Italy is still poor, though the politicians who populate the pages...
Again, a film based on the liberal faith in constructive discussion. In her vast panorama of American womanhood Deitch has given a lot of very different women a chance to speak their minds--everyone, in fact, but women further to the political left than she. It would be unfair to derogate her achievement just because she has left out socialist feminism. But there's something chilling about her choice of interviewees. When a whole group of prostitutes agree, tantalizingly, that "the system must be changed," and then explain that their idea of freedom from oppression is the freedom...