Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST SPRING, the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee affiliated itself with District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, in its drive to form a union for clerical and technical employees in the Medical Area. The unionizing effort has won the support of a vast majority of Medical Area workers, but Harvard has opposed the formation of the union, contending that the Medical Area is an "inappropriate bargaining unit" under the National Labor Relations Act. National Labor Relations Board hearings were held to determine whether Medical Area Employees share "a separate community of interest...
...removed an immediate threat to the preservation of the Constitution's checks and balances. Barely two years ago, Nixon was refusing to spend funds that Congress had appropriated for specific programs, thus undercutting both the will of Congress and its power of the purse. He was claiming a vast protection of Executive privilege against disclosure of information on his Administration's decisions, hobbling the ability of Congress to see that laws were being properly enforced and programs carried out. And despite deepening doubts about Nixon's Indochina war policies, Congress was making little effective effort to exert...
Egypt's economy was already strained when Sadat succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as President in 1970. Since then it has got worse. One of the problems is geographic: though vast in area, Egypt is mostly desert. Fully 96% of its population is jammed into a narrow green belt averaging seven miles in width and 500 miles long in the Nile Valley. Another problem is the population itself, which is growing at a million per year despite belated efforts to control...
...Howdy Doody Show in 1947, redesigned its gravel-voiced, freckle-faced principal and colleagues, Dilly-Dally and Phineas T. Bluster, and pulled Howdy's strings through countless squabbles and seltzer battles with Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell until 1960, when the network dropped the program and disbanded its vast peanut gallery of young fans...
...been the rustic rondelay, a handholding, earth-stamping ritual testifying to the vernal purity of the prairie. There has been the subway serenade-urban jostle, excitement and speed. Always there has been the brassy audacity of a nation that flung railroads like dice across the breadth of a vast continent...