Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main considerations is the vast Soviet air defense network, largest in the world. Some 6,000 radar installations stretch from Murmansk to Vladivostok for early detection of a U.S. attack. The Soviet force of 5,000 interceptor aircraft includes 200 formidable MiG-25s, known as Foxbats, which have a top speed of 1,800 m.p.h. and a maximum altitude of close to 80,000 ft. In addition, the Soviets have about 12,000 surface-to-air missiles-low-level SA-3s and SA-6s and high-level SA-2s and SA-5s-at more than 1,000 sites...
...Vast Reserves. Yet in a world menaced by the specter of energy shortages, Saudi Arabia possesses one source of power that far outweighs all its drawbacks: a pool of oil so vast that it may almost equal the combined reserves of the Western Hemisphere and the Soviet Union. According to one current study, whether the world starts running short of oil to power its machinery as early as 1981 or considerably later in the century depends primarily on how rapidly the Saudis choose to pump out their crude. And high prices for the petroleum have given the Saudis an enormous...
Because of their vast size and huge needs, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are ideal economic trading partners. Saudi Arabia wants just about everything the U.S. has-and lots of it. The Saudis are striving to develop a modern defense system, and this year they will spend $10.7 billion on weapons, many from the U.S. The U.S. is building coastal defense vessels for the fledgling Saudi navy and training the crews. American firms have contracts totaling $17 billion for goods and services sold to Saudi Arabia. Thirty thousand Americans are now working in Saudi Arabia, at jobs ranging from installing...
...greatest status symbols is heavy drinking. Booze is strictly prohibited in Saudi Arabia, but vast numbers spend their new riches on getting smashed every day. This is a sign of great wealth, since bootleg Scotch sells for $120 a bottle. One Saudi businessman risked penalties by importing his whisky disguised as crated furniture. One day a worried customs official called him from the airport. "You'd better come and pick up your crate of furniture quickly," he warned. "It's leaking...
...modeled) to open, constructed form-was largely worked out between Europe and America by the way in which the metal constructions of Gonzalez and Picasso, in the 1930s, provoked David Smith's welded sculptures in the U.S. after World War II. The consequences of the change were vast. Amazingly, "Paris -New York" makes no reference to them whatsoever...