Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transitions are rarely smooth. No one blamed the postwar food shortages in Germany on "government mismanagement"--certainly the Allies rushed in with aid. Blaming Hanoi for the problems it now faces seems, at best, somewhat narrow-minded, coming as it does from a citizen of the country that destroyed vast areas of South Vietnam's once-fertile fields...
...students and young workers descended on Bologna 20,000 strong. Most were dressed in faded jeans, and T shirts or windbreakers; some had daubed their faces with paint, imitating American Indians on the warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young...
During this period, Hughes was the largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going...
...management of Davis and his ally, Summa Executive Vice President Frank William Gay, the company had lost a total of $132 million from 1970 through last September. One reason for the losses was the inexperience of Summa executives in running casinos and hotels. The estate's once vast assets dwindled so fast that the company might be hard pressed to meet federal inheritance tax payments; the first installment, estimated at $25 million, will presumably be due in January 1978. Three of its seven Nevada establishments were-and still are-losing big money.* Worse still, Summa was ordered...
Deductions for mortgage interest would be restricted, but not in a way to bother the vast majority of homeowners. Deductions would be limited to $10,000 of interest a year; at present rates, a homeowner would have to be carrying a mortgage of about $110,000 before he ran afoul of that provision...