Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country mile of an honest-to-God farmer with manure and dirt on his boots. Farmers laugh aloud at the bickering efforts of farm organizations to solve problems. Most farmers belong to a farm organization only to participate in low-cost insurance programs or cooperatives, which are growing bigger all the time. The Farm Bureau itself is looking into the idea of buying a huge supermarket chain. Farm organizations are big business, as Shuman is aware...
...rivalries and sentiments died so hard that negotiations often bogged down. The major question facing the negotiators was which paper would get the more profitable morning market. Thieriot demanded that position for his bigger and more successful paper. Randy Hearst, who was joined in the negotiations by his brother William, head of the family's nationwide chain, was reluctant to tamper with the Examiner, which had been their father's favorite paper as well as his first one. In the end, however, sentiment gave way to the survival instinct...
...Larry O'Brien, John Kennedy's most artful campaign manager and Capitol Hill strategist, who has since shouldered the bigger burden of pushing Johnson's mighty legislative raft through Congress...
...Harry Lee had a far bigger and a far more engrossing story for them. It was a searing attack on the United States that made cheeks burn all the way to Washington before the week...
Growing Appetite. The regionals serve as a marketplace for shares of companies too small or local to be listed on the bigger exchanges, but the function is declining. Today only 739 stocks are traded exclusively on regional exchanges v. 1,300 in 1940. Their main role has changed to being that of a secondary market for shares traded on the New York and American boards, whose prices they closely follow. The surge in the price of seats reflects the growing appetite among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange to join the regional exchanges-notably the six largest that...