Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moses' personal integrity--all of us who have read Mr. Caro's book realize that this cannot be done. However, it is no secret that through the peak of his career Mr. Moses enjoyed the concomitant privileges of a personal fortune -- in terms of access to the state's vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that attend well-placed public officials. Those facts are certainly straight. To refer to those privileges as a "fortune" was a serious rhetorical oversight on my part. Yet to ignore the fact that Moses' activities did, nonetheless, benefit himself...
...that point, Assad began a methodical campaign of attrition against the Christians. So far, the campaign has had mixed results. About 300,000 Maronites have become refugees; their schools, businesses and other institutions have been destroyed. The vast majority of wealthy Christians have fled the country, leaving behind only the fighters and those too poor to buy a ticket to safety...
Carlton Curtis, spokesman for the Coca-Cola Co., defends the aggressive ads as normal competitive tactics. He contends that the judges used in the ads averaged "a dozen years of experience." Far from being cowed by the industry's outrage, Coke, relying on its vast distribution experience, is planning to expand production of Taylor California wines from half a million cases this year to 2 million...
...best-known play, A Month in the Country, completed in 1850, is being revived at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. The company's reach exceeds its grasp by no small margin. Turgenev's setting is a vast country place filled with idle, frustrated souls who can turn a draw ing room into a tinderbox...
...MOST innovative part of the pennsylvania package was Shapp's use of state pension fund money to help finance the VW plant. By persuading the funds' directors to make the loan, Shapp recognized that states should use the vast capital pool of public employee pension funds to advance their own economic well-being, just as workers and communities should use their pension funds not only to asure future incomed but present income, jobs, growth as well. The problem with Shapp's package was that it only subsidized Volkswagen, and increased Pensylvania's dependence on the private sector. That $135 million...