Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s Mao Zedong ordered the urban populations of northern China to "dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere" in preparation for Soviet nuclear strikes. Now the vast network of tunnels beneath the streets of Harbin is being converted into a subway. Other shelters are already serving as underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
...designed to enable a single vessel to protect an entire Navy battle group from all sorts of attack. The Vincennes is one of eleven U.S. cruisers equipped with the system, and the first to be deployed in the Persian Gulf. Phased-array radars constantly sweep the skies over a vast swatch of ocean. They can track more than 100 aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles and torpedoes simultaneously. All show up as white symbols on one of four blue screens; each symbol is in a particular shape, identifying the object as airplane, missile or whatever. Computers can direct the simultaneous firing...
...success rate has been high. Fully 95% of the center's students complete a six-month term in one of eight vocational programs. Of those who graduate, 96% have been placed in jobs, and the vast majority stay employed for the long term. With that record, the El Paso center has ranked No. 1 for the past ten years among the 107 Job Corps units in the U.S. Declares Director David Carrasco: "The community is sold on us. We're turning out a proven product...
...backbone of the system is a vast temporary network connecting 9,000 telephones and 250 computers. To handle the torrent of news and messages passing among the machines, the Democrats laid down 23 miles of fiber-optic cable, each strand of which can simultaneously carry thousands of digital signals. The flow of information will be managed by software from Novell, a Utah-based firm that specializes in getting machines of different makes to work together...
...went last week at the first, extraordinary party gathering since 1941, an event that proved extraordinary in every sense of the word. Day after sweltering day in an early summer heat wave, nearly 5,000 delegates met in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses to debate their country's political future, and specifically the fate of Gorbachev's three-year-old program of perestroika (restructuring). A combination political convention, town meeting, classroom lecture and gripe session, the gathering turned into an astonishing exercise in Gorbachev's second-favorite buzz word, glasnost (openness). More than 70 delegates spoke their minds...