Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors agree with all of the AMA's actions. Many support Medicare reform, and most are adamantly pro-choice. Physicians across the country devote thousands of hours to free service, and the vast majority do not overcharge Medicare patients...
...said the temptation was always there for an institution like Harvard, which has vast resources but is always hungry for more, to fall sway to the banker's logic and slowly let its academic mission deteriorate...
Despite its vast gray Soviet-style tenements and the absence of the imposing wall that enclosed it for a thousand years, Beijing strikes me as China's prettiest and most livable large city. Staggered work shifts are common, and vehicles from outside the city are banned during the day. The avenues are broader, the streets are cleaner. There are even more trees...
...American history, an ugly tear in a tapestry that people once believed had been woven out of high ideals and simple decency. A few years ago, when it became obvious that it was time to repair that rent, our popular culture took on something of the air of a vast quilting bee, with writers, filmmakers and TV producers bending over their restorative needlework...
...narrow pool of party cadres he has to choose from and uncertainty over who is capable of putting his plans into action and managing them effectively. In fact, the purged Nikonov was appointed by Gorbachev with high hopes just three years ago. Moreover, Gorbachev has never had the vast party bureaucracy and probably not even a majority of the Central Committee fully behind...