Ehrlich wrote that "nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate" and that America's "vast agricultural surpluses are gone."

Thus we have a vast surplus of labour.

The labor fueling the spectacular rise of export-oriented light industry along the south coast of China came from the vast surplus in rural areas.

And because of the vast surplus of office space, he said he did not expect a full recovery until 1998.

Bred for biomedical research, they are now unemployed, a result of a vast surplus of laboratory chimpanzees.

Again space seemed to be charged with a vast surplus of energy that rushed in from all around, coursing through their bodies, producing a tingling feeling.

The initiative parallels joint plans already under way to burn Russia's vast surplus of uranium, another fuel of nuclear warheads.

Compounding the shortfall are cuts in agricultural subsidies, which have effectively erased vast surpluses that many Western countries used to tap to relieve crises overseas.

But when the price of oil declined in the early 1980's and collapsed in 1986, oil cut into the market share of gas, leaving a vast surplus.

These vast surpluses show that the contingency planning which is necessary in every political domain has been overdone in this case.