Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difference between God and Father Hesburgh [May 2]?" The answer is "God is everywhere; Father Hesburgh is everywhere but Notre Dame." Though some students here are quick to assert that Father Hesburgh's abundant activity elsewhere denotes a lack of concern over what happens at Notre Dame, the vast majority feel as I do: that Hesburgh merely is the main proponent of the activist philosophy that epitomizes the campus in general...
There is no carrot with the stick. All I see ahead is an endless road of escalating prices against nonescalating income, with vast uncertainty about a better future for our children and theirs. I don't mind pulling in my belt, but I need more incentive than their mere survival...
Indonesia, in fact, has become a last frontier of the Pacific. The boom is now a decade old, and Suharto can claim much of the credit for it: shortly after Sukarno's ouster, the government passed laws encouraging foreign investment. Since then, vast sections of a breathtakingly beautiful country have been transformed-though not always in a flattering way. Huge development projects have brought roads, electricity, hospitals and schools to the hinterlands. Nonetheless most of Indonesia remains as it always was: a verdant wilderness populated by agrarian peoples...
...battle is not yet over. The pipeline's developers must now contend with environmentalists, who object to slurries because of the vast amounts of water they would drain away from areas that are already water-short. The Houston Natural Gas line would consume enough water to supply 40,000 people for a year. Company officials counter by saying that no drinkable water will be used. Their intention is to drill for brackish or saline water unfit for human consumption or agriculture...
Before long, he creates a government, complete with constitution and courts. He declares independence from Spain and claim to the vast land he and his group are dreamily yet viciously floating through, starving as the Indians grow bolder. In the end, no one is left but Aguirre, who is last seen shouting his plan for the conquest of the entire continent to the indifferent jungle, as hundreds of marmosets swarm over his waterlogged raft...