Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once again, and once again promised cooperation. But this time the Carter administration should stick by its commitments to Mexico. On moral grounds, the U.S. should always treat its less powerful allies with the same respect it accords more influential nations. And in light of Mexico's discovery of vast reserves of oil and gas, the United States would certainly not be acting contrary to its own self-interest to give Mexico the respect it deserves...
...three. As the country grows ever more litigious, high-stakes law has ceased to be the preserve of large New York and Washington firms; practitioners now need to know on a regular basis what their colleagues in the rest of the country are up to. The potential market is vast: almost 500.000 lawyers (median annual income: $30.000) and 30.000 fresh law school graduates every year. To turn these prospects into profits, the three papers have evolved different editorial strategies...
...contemporary art after 1900, the salon was the main meeting point between new art and a wide public in Europe−have become apparent. In particular, the salon was relatively democratic. Any artist could send to it and stand a chance of acceptance. It suited a culture with a vast pool of unemployed, or insecurely employed, talent. There were more painters than buyers in the Paris of the 1850s, just as there are far more artists being produced by the art-education system in the U.S. today than there are galleries interested in their work. The salon was an indispensable...
Asks McCrackin: "How can I go and testify against a prisoner on behalf of the state when it is the state that is responsible for the vast injustice, degradation and horror that is Lucasville?" But with the grand jury stalled by McCrackin's steadfastness, the kidnapers are still in Lucasville-and they are likely to stay there for quite a while...
Holmes and Watson are hired to find the Ripper by a group of merchants whose businesses suffer because shoppers fear to walk the Whitechapel streets. But as the sleuth reveals a vast coverup, he shows that nothing is as it seems. The shopkeepers are a group of radical anarchists, Jack is not a sex-crazed mutilator but a hired killer, and the master plotters are part of a conspiracy to expunge all those who know the identity of Queen Victoria's il legitimate grandchild...