Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fireman was right, but he was probably the only one surprised. Students at MIT and Harvard and most of the other colleges in the country know that vast numbers of their peers do not sleep alone on weekends. A lot of them also participate in other activities that are prohibited by antiquated rules--drinking, smoking and gambling are a few. But most colleges today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives. The most restrictive policy on sex lives may well be getting a roommate's signature on a slip permitting overnight visitors. The stringent codes...
...this has yet to make an impact on the Turkish public. Nearly all export earnings go for petroleum and fertilizers, leaving the vast state-owned industries without spare parts. The result: lower production and more unemployment. Says a State Department specialist in Turkish affairs: "We just hope that whatever the next government may be, it will stick to the terms of the IMF deal and not deviate from the international strategy for recovery. Otherwise, Turkey could become a flat-out disaster case...
Signs of impending disaster had appeared all through 1928 and 1929. The speculative fever of the Roaring Twenties had infected rich and poor alike, and vast numbers of people were dangerously overextended. Credit was absurdly easy to obtain, and most brokerages required only 10% cash for stocks bought on "margin...
...policies. In 1949 Shostakovich was dispatched to New York City as the star Soviet delegate to a Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an event sponsored by such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin. The conference was part of a vast Soviet-sponsored peace campaign that was conveniently distracting attention from Stalin's resumption of hostilities against his own people...
...Social Sciences, will lead a discussion on opportunities at Harvard. "Everybody thinks it's somebody else's Harvard. The public school kids think it's the preppies' Harvard; the preppies think it's Bronx Science's Harvard," Riesman said, adding that he wants to show the parents the vast opportunities available to everyone...