Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucks were immobilized by the mob, and within minutes the vast square was turned into a sea of waving white and red student banners as protesters chanted pro-reform slogans...
...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
...same time he was curtailing exorbitant demands on his country's exchequer, Gorbachev was trying to establish peaceful conditions around the country's borders. Simply enforcing totalitarianism on restive East bloc neighbors was no longer a satisfactory solution; their own vast economic and political troubles were becoming an insupportable drain on Soviet resources and attention. Perhaps most important, Gorbachev recognized that it was essential to enlist economic, technological and managerial assistance from the West. The price of that was a curtailment of cold war aggression and regional agitation...
...their President, I wouldn't want it. I would hate to see that murderer ruling in Amman. But he would be their problem. We made a great mistake in 1970 when we sent our forces to save Hussein. I recommended against it. As I see it, a vast majority in this country is together when it comes to the issue of whether there should be a second Palestinian state. The answer is no, because everyone knows Jordan is already a Palestinian state...
COVER: In the battle over exploitation of Alaska's vast resources, the tragic Exxon Valdez accident may give environmentalists the upper hand...