Word: massed
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...leading man on the list is Kohl. As recently as last November he was hailed at the Brandenburg Gate as a national hero for deftly steering his country through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; now he is demonized as a national embarrassment. The mass-circulation magazine Stern ran Kohl's photo on its cover showing the former Chancellor dappled with mud. He was lampooned on television's most popular interview show as "Helmut Kohleone," the Teutonic equivalent of the Godfather. Throughout his public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year...
...neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster than the maps can be redrawn, and the result is something like a mass nervous breakdown...
Student response to the proposals has been mild compared to the mass outrage on the Hanover, N.H. campus last fall, when the crackdown on Greek-centered social life began...
...overdrive, flooding the airwaves with ads (and making broadcast radio and TV networks arguably the season's biggest winners). An estimated 26.4 million Americans shopped online between Thanksgiving and New Year's, and total online sales reached $5 billion, treble those of 1998, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass...
...sales, while those who work with e-publishers typically get royalties of 40% to 70% of sales. Compare that with the less than $10,000 the average author gets as an advance on a conventional first novel. Angela Adair-Hoy of Booklocker.com an e-publishing firm in Andover, Mass., says sales of the three nonfiction titles she has self-published average $4,000 a month...