Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world." The drive to gain some freedom from OPEC by developing domestic energy sources has never been more pressing. Last week the Senate easily adopted by a vote of 65 to 19 a $20 billion synthetic-fuel program that, among other things, would turn the nation's vast coal deposits into oil and gas. But of all the old and new sources of petroleum now being freshly examined, none is more promising or as controversial as the oil-bearing rock known as shale...
...anthologies. The guardians of the humanities do little to convince undergraduates of the importance of their subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures at the Science Center on constipation in worms or some such subject a vast lecture hall is packed, but when a visiting scholar lectures on some aspect of the humanities there are almost never any undergraduates present, the audience being limited to twenty or thirty faculty members or doctoral students and the atmosphere is often one of respectful boredom...
...Kennedy has carried the debate over the power of the oil companies beyond economic consideration to reckon with the threat that their vast economic power poses to a fair distribution of political power. He has long favored public funding of Congressional elections. (In 1978, oil industry PACs, oil company directors, executives and lawyers contributed $1.3 million to 34 senators, more than $40,000 for each one. And the U.S. News and World Report estimates that the oil lobby spends up to $75 million a year in Washington...
Efforts to mount a vast international relief campaign gathered force last week as visitors to refugee camps in Thailand and to the interior of Cambodia returned with searing eyewitness accounts of mass starvation. Three U.S. Senators, the first American officials to visit the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh since the fall of Lon Nol, testified before Edward Kennedy's Senate Judiciary Committee that famine and disease threatened to extinguish the entire Cambodian people. Republican John Danforth of Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that...
...Khmer Rouge excesses were condemned almost everywhere except in China, which had long favored an independent Cambodia, one that would be outside North Viet Nam's sphere of influence. Peking propped up the Pol Pot regime with vast amounts of military and economic aid. The North Vietnamese, meanwhile, never gave up their dream of taking all of Indochina. In early 1978 Hanoi used the excuse of some Khmer Rouge raids on Vietnamese border villages to invade Cambodia. Ostensibly, the Vietnamese soldiers involved were "volunteers" assisting a "National Salvation Front" headed by Heng Samrin and other obscure Khmer Rouge defectors. Last...