Most of the commercial livestock production, especially for the export sector, occurs on huge estancias (estates) that have been the source of economic and social dominance for their owners for many generations.
Because oil and gas are less dense than water, which occurs in huge quantities in the earth's subsurface, oil and gas migrate through relatively porous sedimentary source rock toward the earth's surface.
Even accepting that the majority of our readers are smart and well-informed, there still remains an inevitable problem that occurs whenever huge numbers of people vote for something: the most popular nominee – as opposed to the best qualified – always wins.
It is sometimes referred to as an alga of roadside ditches and is frequently used in introductory biology courses [ 3] because it often occurs in huge abundances and is easy to address at the generic level.
These Congressionally approved increases, when they do occur, are huge — often double the previous salary.
Although the officials providing the briefing acknowledged that the simulation was a bit simplistic, their message was clear: with so many vulnerable critical infrastructure systems across the country, such an attack could easily occur, with huge consequences.
Most of the growth has occurred at huge plantations in the sun-drenched savannas of the country's center-west region as well as in the northeastern state of Bahia, where cotton acreage has doubled every year since 2002 and is now expanding at a faster pace than that of soybeans, Brazil's leading agricultural export.
In how many countries could a fall in asset values as big as that just experienced in Japan occur without huge social disruption (golf-club membership fees, an important indicator in such a golf-crazed country, fell by 93% between 1989 and 2001)?But, as with so many aspects of Japan, the good tends to be accompanied by the bad.
The giant jolt that struck Japan this month and Chile last year occurred because huge masses of rock suddenly moved.
The hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its metabolite DHEA-sulfate (DHEAS) occur in huge quantities in the plasma as well as in the brain of vertebrates.
