Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Watergate in which he had abused his office with a hard-line approach?but without pugnacity. He attempts to explain away calmly such charges as his use of the IRS and FBI to harass those on his "enemies lists," his illegal wiretapping of so-called security risks, his vast underpayment of income taxes. Yet his bitterness erupts at times as he lacerates the Washington Post and its Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, as well as lawyers on the Watergate special prosecutor's staff...
...states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road to Geneva could become a quagmire...
...school has deprived a large number of students of expected services and increased the vast gap between the quality of certain Houses with the justification that campus life is separate but always equal. The rationale has traditionally been that all facilities are open to all students who can benefit tremendously so long as they make an effort. Each House is assumed to be possessed of some peculiar attractive quality so that no matter where you live you still come out a winner. The trouble is that Mather House has lost out again, this time in the scramble for hot breakfasts...
...dissatisfied with figures on the size of U.S. energy resources (TIME, April 18). Yet neither point makes much difference for policy. World oil reserves assuredly are finite, even if they might last a bit longer than the CIA thinks. Moreover, part of Nader's argument is that vast quantities of natural gas under the ocean (now unreachable) and oil shale in Western states (now far too costly to tap) might some day become accessible with improved technology. No responsible Government could bank on that...
...Vast Scale. What was once a trickle has become a flood. Exact figures are hard to come by, but U.S. officials estimate that between 6 million and 10 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S. Last year alone, between 500,000 and 1 million arrived-while another 750,000 were caught and deported. If these numbers are added to the 400,000 legal newcomers who enter every year, it is apparent that the U.S. is experiencing an immigration on the vast scale of that of the turn of the century.* Last week, while concentrating on energy, the Carter Administration...