Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi and American experts together prepared the list of our arms needs, and the two reached a joint decision that the F-15 is the most appropriate element of defense for Saudi Arabia." Those defense needs are closely related to the geographical facts of life for a country with "vast territory, long borders and natural wealth...
...pulpit or during pursuit of the clearly identifiable philistines of exorbitant indulgence, such an approach to leadership may be effective. But the recent record suggests that it can be an extremely hazardous way to run a republic that has brought the vast majority of its people undreamed-of wealth, poise and awareness...
...Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon, and so it was-on a much smaller scale. Shortly after dawn one morning last week, some 200 South African paratroopers landed by helicopter at the Angolan town of Cassinga. The town lies 155 miles north of Angola's border with Namibia-the vast territory also known as South West Africa that Pretoria has ruled for almost 60 years under an international mandate. The assault force's goal: to deliver a crippling blow to SWAPO (for South West African Peoples' Organization), the radical nationalist organization whose guerrillas have been warring against...
After the march I spoke to many friends and faculty members, and asked them how they had felt about it--and the vast majority of them were in total support. Surely, there can be no more question now as to student sentiment after that torchlight paraqe. It should be obvious that we are united behind the demands of the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC...
There are richer men in the U.S., but Mellon's wealth is nonetheless so vast as to be scarcely understandable in ordinary terms. The value of his stocks, bonds and other measurable holdings−particularly in family-dominated companies such as Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Koppers−is probably well over $400 million. But there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain...