With the caveat that the UFC is often criticized by fighters themselves, such as Matt Mitrione, for the vast disparities in its pay scale, it is popular enough that top talent are now able to command high payouts, too: Brock Lesnar took home a reported $2.5m for Saturday's fight.
Issued in 1975, the record constituted a zenith of that uniquely British entwinement of driving rock with vast symphonic scale; it was wrapped in the first four-way gatefold cover; it was a definitive convergence of Brock's guitar, the ethereal synthesiser of Simon House and the impenitent bass of "Lemmy" Kilminster, for whom Warrior was a studio farewell with Hawkwind, before he formed Motörhead.
They have this extraordinary system: in effect, a 24/7 panopticon on a vast scale that it is gazing at you with an all-seeing eye.
Some critics have dismissed the "ice wall" as a costly technology that would be vulnerable at the blackout-prone plant because it relies on electricity the way a freezer does, and even more so because it has never been tried on the vast scale that Japan is envisioning and was always considered a temporary measure, while at Fukushima it would have to endure possibly for decades.
The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Bernard L. Madoff's trading firm has made an urgent request to the court for unusually broad authority to subpoena witnesses and documents, citing the vast scale of what is alleged to be a $50-billion 50-billionme.
But the idea that biochar is a universal solution that can be safely deployed on a vast scale is as misguided as Mao Zedong's Great Leap Backwards.
(4) "The idea that biochar is a universal solution that can be safely deployed on a vast scale is as misguided as Mao Zedong's Great Leap Backwards," he wrote.
Writing in this newspaper in March, George Monbiot said: "The idea that biochar is a universal solution that can be safely deployed on a vast scale is as misguided as Mao Zedong's Great Leap Backwards".
But the scale of the operation was vast, and it is hard to see how anything quite like it can be sustained.
It's the vast scale of it that gets me down – it's everywhere, from top to bottom, from the Oscars to the meanest street or hovel.
