Word: vast
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...grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounces its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...
While Grogan might be a Massachusetts insider,he has a vast store of knowledge about Washington,Casey says...
...Jordan's retirement broke the same day that baseballs hit by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were auctioned off for far more than balls hit by all-time home run king Hank Aaron and former single season home-run leaders Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. This is a vast and rich nation full of talented people in all fields who keep turning up as the years go by. After the tears in Chicago have dried, we will remember that no one is ever irreplaceable, not even Air Jordan...
...vast majority of other trials, scientists are hard at work developing a new generation of viral vectors. One promising candidate, says Pennsylvania's Wilson, is the AAV (adeno-associated virus), a small, benign human virus that does not seem to cause any disease. "It doesn't elicit the same kind of inflammatory response that the other vectors do," Wilson explains. "It's somehow evolved the way to get around that." The AAV also efficiently insinuates itself into nondividing cells and, in tests with monkeys and mice, has enabled the therapeutic gene engineered into it to express itself for more than...
...German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled Thoughts on the Past and the Future, the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary's deep thoughts on his country and the 20th century...