Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this, reported TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein last week, served as a reminder that nearly two years after the fall of the radical Gang, a tough and sometimes even violent power struggle is still going on in hundreds of localities scattered throughout the vast territory of China...
...reality, as anyone involved with criminal justice can attest to, is far different. In the vast majority of cases, the accused has no trial. His "day" in court is the few minutes it takes him to plead guilty. "Here we have an elaborate jury trial system, and only 10% of the accused get to use it," says Colorado Law School Professor Albert H. Alschuler. "That's like solving America's transportation problems by giving | 10% Cadillacs and making the rest go barefoot." For most defendants, justice is done by way of a deal: a guilty plea in exchange...
Undersea exploration and oil searches go on apace. Oceanographers, environ mental experts and futurists freely predict that man will not only soon put vast tracts of seabed under cultivation but may eventually be commuting back and forth to shallow, Atlantis-like undersea apartment clusters. It is tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that...
...foreigners. Unlike most Americans, a lot of foreigners regard New York as a haven, to which they are fleeing from the high inflation and political instability of their own countries. They come from France and Italy, the Middle East and the Far East, as well as South America, bringing vast amounts of new wealth into the city...
...vast majority of injuries result from what doctors call the "overuse syndrome"-trying to push the out-of-condition over-30 body too far too fast. Los Angeles Orthopedist Sonny Cobble says simply that weekend jocks as a class tend to suffer from "an acute case of simplemindedness. Most of us have a tendency to remember our youth." Dr. Marshall Rockwell, who together with several partners operates seven Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms, reports that a majority of weekend athletes are middle class and "tend to be quite competitive." Adds Braden: "It's almost like when they finally...