Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funding controversy cannot really explain the tepid student support for AWARE. Calendars about the program were posted all over campus, and it is reasonable to assume that the vast majority of students knew about the events. Why did so few attend...
...Washington, the revolving door was buffeting Baker's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, a former high-ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve the problem...
Show business having turned into a vast antechamber for the Betty Ford Center, one has to have a certain sympathy for Bert Rigby (Robert Lindsay), whose career is founded on nothing more complicated or newsworthy than a nosebleed...
...health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design is the work of Christopher Hemmeter, a sort of revolutionary in the resort business. His tastes run toward the liquid: private lagoons full of sociable fish, waterfalls, whirlpools, water slides and vast, curvaceous pools. Distinction lies in myriad details, like the seven bird keepers who ensure that the 27 pink flamingos get enough carotene in their diet so that they don't fade to beige...
...dressed and served for dinner that night, or shipped home upon request. Or deep-sea fishing on a luxury yacht ($1,380 for up to six people), Formula Ford race-car driving (not available until April), a day in the saddle with the paniolos (Hawaiian cowboys) of the vast Kahua Ranch ($1,460 for four) or dinner at the Hulihee Palace, former home of the Hawaiian royalty ($1,995 for four). Visitors can also watch whales or sunsets or moonrises from the deck of the 50-ft. catamaran Noa Noa, with its two amiable skippers and well-stocked...