Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans can be criticized for enjoying now and paying later, they can also be praised for building equity and acquiring assets. And the assets of ordinary Americans are much bigger and faster growing than their liabilities. For the great majority of Americans, debt is a means-to acquire one's own house, to achieve mobility, to invest in education or travel or plain comfort. Properly used and managed, it is not a sign of trouble but a bet on the future...
...white shark has devoured swimmers in such diverse locations as Matawan, N.J., the Gulf of Mexico, and Portsea, Australia. The rod-and-reel record is a 2,664-pounder landed by Australian Fruit Farmer Alf Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed his 30-ft. launch 12 miles, finally broke loose after an epic 5½-hr. battle. Last year, off New York's Montauk Point, Captain Frank Mundus, a charter-boat skipper and shark specialist, confronted a huge white shark that swam up to inspect the boat...
...been moving through a five-stage plan geared to get them into full combat, side by side with the Vietnamese. In the first stage, they constructed a defense perimeter at Danang airbase; second, they sent out small patrols a mile or so beyond the defense line; third, they moved bigger patrols as far as five miles out, seeking to find and fight the Viet Cong; fourth, they moved out eight miles or more, accompanied by small Vietnamese combat units; and fifth, they plan to head out in full combat-platoon patrols with full-size Vietnamese platoons...
...similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit to Düsseldorf. This competition, anguishing to German and U.S. steelmen alike, may soon sharpen. Reason: even bigger ships now in the making (up to 100,000 tons) are expected to halve the present transport costs of coal...
Rough Road. Despite the rebound, Britain's economy faces a rough road this summer. British tourists will soon begin their annual exodus abroad, cut ting into Britain's reserves as they eat and drink their way across the Conti nent. A bigger worry to Britain's money managers, however, is the extent to which the country's reserves will be drained by its staunchest foreign allies in the monetary battles-the nations of the sterling area...