Last year, H.P. purchased Electronic Data Systems, one of the largest technology services companies, in a bid to counter I.B.M.'s immense services organization.
As rewards for his immense services they were meagre enough, but it was some measure of his unique reputation for highminded disinterestedness that his accepting them should provoke so much bitter disillusionment.
To mark his 23 years as executive chairman, a liber amicorum for him was published in 1987: it had a tribute by the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the other contributions reflected his immense services to public international law, and also to commercial, European Community and public law.
In writing this insightful, thoroughly researched biography of Emil du Bois-Reymond, Gabriel Finkelstein has done an immense service not just to historians of science but to anyone interested in nineteenth-century European culture.
She knows her love is doomed, but when she witnesses Blake apparently stealing Rachel Verinder's jewel, she convinces herself there's one immense service that only she can do for him.
· Dianne Abbott MP He performed an immense service in helping Labour get elected - I don't think they'd have been elected without him - but he had outlived his usefulness.
Yet this was when he had already been of immense service to his people particularly the poor, the black & the young- & while conducting the horrid business in Vietnam put through Congress more humane legislation than any other Pres., with the possible exception of the hero of his earlier days, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The book itself, incidentally, contained a judgment on Zola which could apply almost in its entirety to her own practice: "He performed an immense service to the public which, if it cared to, could read an article on controversial contemporary painting which dispensed with the jargon of criticism".
And yet, despite the immense service he has performed in laying out the current state of scholarship and interpretation of the scrolls, Mr. Shanks's discussion is sometimes puzzling, frustratingly lacking in fullness, especially as he deals with the differences between his own assessment of the meaning of the scrolls and the earlier meanings found in them.
So, smutter100, when you complain that "I disagree with saying that this sort of movie is 'doing an immense public service to us all' through its information about bacterial science," please remember Joe was joking.
Surely someone in the next Presidential campaign will return national defense and military spending to center stage, and if this book helps him (or her) do it, Greider will have rendered an immense public service.
