Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fall Apart. The second-place West Germans are moving smoothly into the Middle East with an impressive mixture of direct exports and joint-venture projects. The Italians are third; they have built a reputation for handling vast projects more cheaply than either the French or the British, and with an outstanding technical flak. For example, in Bahrain, the Società Italiana Resine of Milan is completing a $12 million desalination plant that it says will be the largest in the world. During March the company and the Cairo daily Al Ahram jointly sponsored a conference on desalination that brought together...
...described in terms of the overlapping considerations of its concept, content and design. It attempts to give a comprehensive yet necessarily selective presentation of salient aspects of women's historical growth and role transformation in Boston over the last two centuries. Hiestand has chosen to marshall portions of the vast body of information available to her into six separate groupings: "Dress," "Law," "Work," "Health," "Feminism" and "Education." Her writer-assistant, Marjorie Waters, with a team of three historians, sifted through the voluminous subject choosing those quotes, facts and observations which form the verbal body and content, of the exhibit...
Paul Walkins, a landlord and member of the tent board said last night he thought the "vast Majority" of Tenants would pay the increase...
After their disastrous first quarter, the Engineers played the Crimson evenly, though Harvard finished with a vast statistical advantage. The Crimson peppered the MIT net with 53 shots; the Engineers managed only 29. Harvard also controlled 21 or 26 face-offs and picked up 48 ground balls...
...RENT control's major faults-obvious in both reports-is its haphazard, complicated administration. As a result of its reliance on local boards which hear each case individually, rent control is run by an unpredictable, bureaucracy floundering in vast amounts of red tape. In the Harbridge House's (taken from projections made by the Rent Board), the average delay between application and final decision on a rent increase in Cambridge is six weeks. The Sternlieb report cites a figure of five and a half months. In either case, by the time an increase has been granted, inflation may already have...