Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cranston also said Harvard's liberal bias can be partly attributed to the vast amount of funding it receives from the "predominantly liberal" federal government...
...bearded young man enveloped in a vast billow of golden silk, perched slightly above the "Mother of the World." It is a difficult role. For 90 minutes he sits without flinching a muscle while, on the tiered stage below, rainbow-clad worshipers from the world's five major faiths parade and pray. Jinns bound and archangels glide. Eventually a throng hums, sings and raises its arms to the impassive deity. The Mother of the World has an easier task: undistracted, she wears a blue blindfold throughout the festivities...
...opened the way to a larger student vote. Since the enactment of the law, the number of student voters has climbed to 2500 or 3000 from about half that. But unlike Berkeley, Amherst, or Madison, Wisc., where a student was elected mayor, Cambridge is a "real" city, where the vast proportion of the population is non student. Though the students in Cambridge will always be a minor factor, it would be wrong to suggest that their votes are unimportant...
Wedlock replies that such comparisons are unfair, arguing that there are vast differences in culture and attitudes toward crime and punishment between the United States and other countries. The U.S. leads the rest of the world in all crime, not just murder. and always had because of these attitudes. One of the major differences, he says, is that prison terms in other countries have always been more certain and lengthy than in the United States...
Less than .03 per cent of all handguns were used in murder in 1973 and less than 1 per cent were used in crime. GOAL members feel that its unfair that the vast majority of law-abiding citizens be deprived of their guns for self defense and recreation when they have done nothing wrong and only a tiny portion of gun owners have misused their guns...