Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copper mines that provide about two-thirds of the country's foreign exchange earnings. Belgium's mine holdings were nationalized eleven years ago, but Belgians continue to run them and to export much of their product to Europe. Even if all the whites who worked at the vast Gé;camines mines that dominate Kolwezi could be lured back, it could still, after the last weeks' destruction, require up to a year to get the copper mines working again. In addition, the mines of Kolwezi account for about 90% of Zaïre's cobalt output...
...Ayatullah Shariet-madari, 81, a kindly scholar honored through the Shi'ite world for his learning, the mullahs want Iran to be governed by Islamic law, as are Saudi Arabia and Libya. The mullahs' differences with the Shah date back to 1963, when they were divested of vast religious endowments as part of the "white revolution," the Shah's land-reform program. In addition to objecting to the lack of civil liberties, Shar-ietmadari and his colleagues want the Shah to enforce an old constitutional provision that would allow five mullahs to sit as a watchdog committee...
...Osman Ahmed Osman, the millionaire contractor whose son Mahmud is married to Sadat's daughter Jihan. Osman has a brilliant record as a builder-he was chief contractor for the Aswan High Dam, and did much of the reconstruction of the ruined Suez Canal zone-but his vast wealth and his influence over Sadat invite attacks by the opposition, mainly on corruption charges. Because Osman is his closest friend and adviser, Sadat knows that these attacks are really aimed...
Hungry for job-creating investments from abroad, 20 state governments have set up promotion offices around Europe. Several offer longterm, low-interest loans. The states also pitch job training programs, corporate tax deferment plans that stretch out for years and, of course, the lure of the vast American market, which is bigger and faster growing than all of the Common Market. Business people are also impressed by lower labor costs in the U.S. than in many European countries. In West Germany, for instance, wage costs are about the same as in the U.S., but employer contributions to pension, health...
...there we were at the end of the blue line. We got off the subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed wire, and the sound of dogs barking makes quite a din. The only things lacking are searchlights and watchtowers...