Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping came to power, instituting the rule of law has been a critical element in the drive to modernize China. The government has issued a plethora of statutes covering everything from murder to trademark infringement. The legal profession has finally regained its status. Indeed, the number of Chinese lawyers has soared from a scant 2,000 in 1980 to 25,000 today, and some 70 legal publications are in circulation...
...teeming earth? Simplicity itself: "Colonize the moon. Build space stations. Then go on to populate Mars and the other planets. There is unlimited solar energy out there, and a plethora of minerals and acres of land. Going into the galaxy is not nearly so fantastic as it seems. We are already more informed about outer space than the early explorers ever were about the oceans they sailed on or the lands they discovered...
...thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom humor that makes The Naked Gun seem like Police Academy with a brain. Well, maybe three brains. Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring the microwave popcorn and modest expectations...
...conservatism--that clings to the status quo with renewed and often thoughtless vigor--has pervaded our country and our university. Harvard has mired itself in these sullied waters, dragging its venerable name through the mud and endangering its position of leadership in the intellectual community. Presently facing a plethora of controversial moral and ethical issues, the University has chosen to shamelessly cower from its responsibilities, instead of standing firmly on the high ground...
...despite the plethora of recruiting programs, many minority students and faculty members, who have led the fight for revamping Harvard's minority recruitment efforts--both at the graduate school level and among the ranks of the faculty--remain skeptical...