Word: plethora
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...nations and all people stand to lose from the current plethora of what Kant called 'dishonorable strategem,'" said Bok, referring to the increasing use of terrorism on the part of governments...
Because it lacks both the one-word title of a Goonies and the kill-all-the-bad-guys aspects of a Rambo or Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future may get lost in this summer's plethora of Spielberg and Spielberg ripoff movies. This is unfortunate, as Back to the Future is what a movie ought to be: two hours of non-stop enjoyment...
EXPERTS AGREE that the plethora of criticism is indicative of a conservative trend in American culture, an attempt to recover from what Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment called "the hangover from the '60s," when traditional requirements were generally abandoned under student and faculty pressure. Along with a yen for argyle sweaters and fervent anti-communism. observers have demonstrated a desire for a return to strict standards in higher education. But not everyone thinks that the situation should be presented in such crisis terms...
...Texas Rangers have never fielded a division champion, since their move from Washington to Dallas-Fort Worth in 1971. However, the club has produced a plethora of pitching talent, which it deals to other teams, usually for next to nothing. In this vein, for ten points, identify the one player in this list who was not at one time the property of the Rangers...
Perhaps a reason is that so little physical evidence survives to humanize the man. East Germany has a plethora of preserved Luther sites--Eisleben contains the house in which Luther was born and also the one in which he died--and Handel's birthplace, a solid two-story house, still stands not far from his rather smug statue in Halle's central marketplace...