Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEXICO CITY--The reputed mastermind of Mexico's vast drug pipeline to the United States was taken in custody yesterday after a huge sweep that included the arrest of his hometown's entire police force, authorities said...
...auction of Soviet contemporary art held, amid vast hype, by Sotheby's in Moscow last July was seen by the West as a vindication of dissident artists but by many of the artists themselves as divisive and even dispiriting. Some lots went for unheard-of sums; the painter Grisha Bruskin, whose work had been comfortably selling in America for just over $40,000, saw a large multipanel piece called Fundamental Lexicon go for $415,000, an event that caused much skeptical talk both inside and outside the ministry. Landscapes by Svetlana Kopystiansky, and her husband Igor's assemblages...
...over the elaborate Mosque established by Suleyman for his people. Above the arch the name of Allah is inscribed in a testament to the fact that even the Western artists understood the Ottoman ruler's Islamic faith and rejection of personal credit for the glory of Constantinople and the vast empire...
...Some of the things we've been looking at are the undergraduate perception of TFs, whether or not there are vast differences in the way sections are taught in the math and sciences versus the humanities and whether any inequities exist in the quality of teaching and in grading," Prown says...
Recognizing that the vast expanse of tax-free buildings the University was using for educational purposes could be put to far more profitable uses, Vellucci proposed a variety of "creative" measures to combat Harvard. Among the less well-received proposals of 1968 was Vellucci's plan to bulldoze Harvard Yard to make way for a bus depot...