Yet the drumbeat of dire fiscal warnings has grown vastly louder.
Giant companies have grown vastly larger, more automated, more global, and more powerful.
As the political divide widens and opinions harden, the stakes have grown vastly higher.
Goodwill has grown vastly since the two countries went to war over the Falklands Islands (to Argentines, the Malvinas) in 1982.
And arguably the best example is the fact that the country has grown vastly wealthier but only modestly healthier.
At every European election since the first in 1979, turnout has shrunk – but over the same period the European parliament's powers have grown vastly.
Indeed, Reagan ushered in an era in which a small minority grew vastly rich, while working families saw only meager gains.
The Washington Area Women's Soccer League, one of three amateur women's leagues around the District of Columbia, has grown vastly in the past two years; its 550 regular players are now evangelists for the new professional league.The first plans are modest.
Then it was more or less flat once you take account of the fall in defense spending — contrary to what the right thinks, government has not grown vastly bigger since the days of Saint Reagan.
Omaha continues to be one of the largest railroad centres in the United States; it is home to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, which grew vastly through mergers in the 1980s and '90s.
