Word: vastness
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...also be true that China's stocks of resources are vast--in oil, for example, the Pohai Gulf, the grand Daqing field and other "new finds" in Harbin--but China must still look outside for the methods to recover its materials. Once thought to be the solution to China's technology problems, joint ventures--in which Western nations supplied the expertise and technology and the Chinese supplied the raw goods--have fallen on hard times. The Chinese have proved willing to share the wealth, but not always to the satisfaction of foreign firms. And once the plants have been constructed...
...fact, they may have barely scratched the surface. Italy's degenerating political climate has not only been chilled by violence from the left, it has also spawned what one official calls "a vast archipelago of black [right-wing] terrorism." Of the 248 people killed by terrorists in Italy since 1969, neo-Fascists have been responsible...
Some proponents see vast possibilities for the program. Says the Broadcasting Center's director of development, Richard Smith: "If several hundred students enroll now through seven colleges and succeed, it would be logical for 100 colleges to be enrolling some thousands of students...
...also be true that China's stocks of resources are vast--in oil, for example, the Pohai Gulf, the grand Daqing field and other "new finds" in Harbin--but China must still look outside for the methods to recover its materials. Once thought to be the solution to China's technology problems, joint ventures--in which Western nations supplied the expertise and technology and the Chinese supplied the raw goods--have fallen on hard times. The Chinese have proved willing to share the wealth, but not always to the satisfaction of foreign firms. And once the plants have been constructed...
Getting such a long and varied life between the covers of a single volume seems challenging enough; harder still to record the vast panorama of history that Lippmann observed and, in some instances, helped shape. Author Ronald Steel performs these two tasks brilliantly. Walter Lippmann and the American Century thoroughly lives up to its title. It is both an engrossing biography and a splendid primer to six decades of turbulent political life...