Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that television was a "vast wasteland"), but its effects are complicated...
Michael F. Brewer, director of governmental relations, said yesterday it is too early to say whether "issues of principle will be answered," but he called the new proposal "a vast improvement...
...companies say they need the increased revenue-from new as well as old discoveries-if they are to accelerate their search for oil in remote areas, where production costs are higher than in, say, Texas or Louisiana. Yet increased oil production is not all that is needed; vast amounts of energy are available from unconventional and extremely costly sources such as tar sands and shale, and potentially limitless energy is at hand in the form of solar and geothermal power. The best-and most likely-compromise solution is to retain the wellhead tax but channel some of the proceeds into...
Failing is an amibitious first effort, and it is precisely because it is so ambitious that it falls short of brilliance. Most young playwrights try to take on some vast, earth-shaking moral or social problem in their early efforts. Instead, Gallo tangles with a seemingly dead issue, that is, one man's struggle with personal demons-in his guilt, he believes he is partly responsible for the rise of Nazism. Although the twist in the plot is not revealed until the end of the play, it is rather easy to guess, which is not so much a flaw...
...favors hoarding America's wealth for Americans, it is almost certain that there will be many more of these unauthorized human beings entering the United States in the coming years. Economic conditions in Mexico are so wretched that the United States looks like the promised land in comparison. The vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times. And there seems to be no prospect...