1.  A vast data base with sophisticated search engines for cross-referencing archival material on Iraq has been created, he said.

2.  By Andrew Lawrence Billion Dollar Brain From departmental data marts through to vast data refineries, the data warehousing market is exploding.

3.  In that program, employers would be able to tap into the vast data bases of the Social Security Administration to check on all workers.

4.  Privacy advocates also said that the agreement could represent a step backward for civil liberties because it gives law enforcement agencies access to vast data bases.

5.  The investigators had chased thousands of clues and raked vast data bases looking for a man they thought was responsible for the crimes.

6.  The sector has been hit particularly hard by the U.S. economic slowdown as telecommunications firms and Internet service providers rein in plans to build vast new data networks.

7.  The vast data base will serve as a kind of public park in cyberspace, he added.

8.  It has developed vast data networks knitting together thousands of banks and millions of merchants.