Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the vast majority of student campaign workers are part-time volunteers, a number of Harvard undergraduates and recent graduates have taken full-time jobs on the campaign. Evan O. Grossman '87-'88 is one such worker. Having warmed up in 1984 as an advance man for the Democratic ticket of Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, he now works for Dukakis as an analyst and coordinator. His job includes compiling daily delegate counts, financial information and logistical data...
...CRISIS BECOMES ONLY A PROBLEM. For every farmer unable to pay his debts, three or four others can actually buy more acreage. Debt delinquencies are lower, but so is the price of farmland, except in areas where developers want in. The entire farm economy operates as if in a vast container, a silo; and since places like Iowa rely so heavily on Washington subsidies, you can be sure that for the near future, a small improvement is as good as life will...
...power U.S. satellite images have been used for years by meteorologists, geologists and agronomists to view vast, sometimes inaccessible, areas from space. The U.S. ban grew out of Defense Department fears that civilians might uncover sensitive military secrets. But it backfired when Landsat, the sole U.S. commercial imaging satellite system, which once had a virtual monopoly on space-based pictures, felt the heat from foreign competition...
...vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them through a vast variety of methods," says Clark, savoring his idiosyncratic polysyllables...
...Lenz's The Tutor, adapted by Brecht, and Alexander Ostrovsky's 19th century Russian comedy Too Clever By Half. "I want to break out of the stale convection current that keeps endlessly recirculating the same old Shaw and Chekhov," says Miller. "We are part of Europe, and there are vast expanses of European literature unknown to London audiences...