Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marginal denominational seminaries are the ones mostly marking time. The big ones are getting bigger. The interdenominational elite-Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Union-get more than they can take. At the University of Chicago Divinity School, reports Dean Jerald Brauer, applications are 90% higher than at the same time last year...
...catalyst for a strong economic advance. The reason: industry's present capacity has been more than enough to handle the consumer's spending rise up to now; capital spending and industrial production are not likely to rise much without even bigger consumer spending. Thus, economists who feel that the consumer needs a new stimulus count heavily on the tax cut that, to judge by public opinion polls, the consumer is leery...
University doctors are now waiting to see whether the sudden rise of flu cases admitted to the Health Center this weekend is a forerunner of bigger things to come--possibly an Asian flu epidemic like the ones now rampant in North Carolina and Vermont...
...distinct trend in the industry is toward ever bigger long-distance haulers; 20-ton giants and 42-wheel monsters are already at work. Yet, paradoxically, the days of the continent-spanning truckers may be running out because railroads are fighting back so successfully with their long-distance piggyback service, which last year took 500,000 highway trips away from trucks. The piggyback threat worries truck builders, but they see a bright side of it: there will always have to be truck tractors to deliver the trailers before and after their piggyback...
...overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers had to lock the doors before closing hours. Borrowing a spy-movie technique, department stores staked out a cameraman in a room across from the store to photograph unloading trucks, then threatened wholesalers with the loss of bigger business...