Word: vastness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year. Its 4.8-km runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380 - or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway. Indeed, the sensation of not being in Iraq is a key factor in Kurdistan's boom. Almost no Iraqi flag flies, and fewer than 1,000 U.S. soldiers are deployed in the territory. In the lobby of Arbil's only five-star hotel, filled with American...
Followers of other religions who convert to another faith are not subject to such draconian and medieval penalties. Although the vast majority of Muslims are undoubtedly tolerant and happy to live in peace with their neighbors and those of other faiths, Islam lends itself to corruption by fundamentalist extremists who twist its teachings to serve their own perverted ends...
...resident tutor in Adams House. DIAGNOSIS: COSTLYA typical Harvard applicant applies to 18 schools through the centralized American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS), according to Lee Anne Michelson ’77, assistant director and pre-med adviser at the Office of Career Services. AMCAS, which includes the vast majority of the country’s medical schools, charges a $160 processing fee for the first application and $30 for each additional application. After receiving the AMCAS application from students, medical schools will send out a supplementary form that requires an additional processing fee of $50 to $100, according...
WHRB Classical not only provides quality programming for its niche listeners, but according to Jeremy R. Siegfried ’08, a DJ for WHRB classical, “the vast source of revenue comes from classical...
...because of who he was than what he might do. In fact, no one expected miracles from Lula, as he is known to everyone in this mammoth South American nation. Though he had a long and noble history of fighting for the little guy - in a country where the vast majority are little guys - the former shoeshine boy and union leader had little formal education and no experience in government; what's more, he altered many of his long-held positions during the campaign to embrace free-market economics and soften his once leftist rhetoric. The one thing they didn...