Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the border, and perhaps 250,000 others are clustered in the western provinces of the country, waiting for their chance to escape. They are the lucky ones. Relief agencies believe that as many as 2.25 million Cambodians could die of starvation in the next few months unless a vast amount of aid is provided soon...
...coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...energy companies will need vast sums to pay for development projects, and much of it will have to come from profits or from the capital of investors attracted by profits. While Exxon, for example, has earned nearly $3 billion so far this year, it has also invested $7.5 billion in energy exploration and development, with 41% of it in the U.S. Partly because prices and profits are up, domestic drilling is booming. The number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 in April to 2,391 at present and is expected to reach...
...Eurocurrency market has been one of the most important financial innovations of the postwar era. By opening a vast new source of investment capital, it has furthered international trade and development. But the $1 trillion credit reserve floating free from national or international restrictions also breeds currency instability and inflation. Moneymen figure that they must now correct the problems the Eurocurrency market has created without, in the process, destroying this useful credit system-but nobody is yet sure just how to do that...
Although he labored in obscurity throughout his early career, William Faulkner lived to see an academic cottage industry grow up around his books. Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness. Raw material is naturally at a premium. If a single word that Faulkner wrote and neglected to destroy has not been discovered, some professorial truffle hound will doubtless find and publish...