Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast majority of new planes are going to businessmen," says Ed Stimpson, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. One reason is that the nation's corporate structure is becoming increasingly decentralized, its manufacturing plants scattered around the country. Claims Stimpson: "The company plane is seen today as a vital business tool, a real timesaving machine...
...problem. First, we are victims of the oil companies with their rigged prices, artificial shortages, bookkeeping juggles, and growing control of all sources of energy. Second, we are victims of the U.S. government, with its blind reliance on the price mechanism (import taxes, natural gas deregulation) to force conservation. Vast amounts of energy consumption are simply built into the system, with interstates, suburbs, glass buildings, etc. The only way to force conservation without penalizing the poor or adding to the corporate coffers is to ration energy...
...would waste the efforts of Arab leaders to try to wipe out the tiny democracy of Israel and take the little territory of the only Jewish homeland in a vast Arab area. Instead, why don't they work with Israel to master the scientific and technological realities of the 20th century and put them to use for their social and economic betterment...
Tabas, an ancient oasis located between Iran's vast salt desert of Dasht-i-Kavir and the more forbidding Dasht-i-Lut (Naked Desert) to the south, never had a chance. When the tremors began, most residents were at home, eating or enjoying the cool desert breeze that had begun to blow after torrid daytime temperatures. Once the shaking subsided, only six buildings in the town were still recognizable. Even the few newer buildings of steel-beam construction had collapsed...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra had an interesting schedule last year, including performances of contemporary pieces conducted and discussed by the composers. These performance seminars are an ideal way of spreading the appeal and variety of so-called classical music to a vast audience. The HRO starts its season this year after appearing at an international orchestra competition in Berlin, but you can judge its competence for yourself this Saturday night in Sanders Theater, when James Yannatos conducts a program of Debussy, Verdi, Copland and Schumann. The programs for the rest of the year aren't quite as wide-ranging, but watch...