Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller came lukewarmly to Morhouse's defense, urged that he not be judged by the public until all the facts were in. Morhouse seemed in no hurry to provide all the facts, and his refusal inevitably led to reports that bigger and better scandals were about to burst...
Whatever their frustrations or ambi tions, the governments and peoples of the rest of the Continent seemed unready to accept a narrow little Europe as the pattern for their future. The mold for some thing bigger had been formed in the Rome Treaty in 1957. and would neither lightly nor happily be broken. A struggle for the loyalty of Western Europe has now begun...
...When the doors open, the scrimmage begins; cracked ribs are not uncommon. In such circumstances, the passenger's first concern is for his safety, not for his packages-or even his clothes. In fact, so many commuters lose their shoes fighting their way off the trains that the bigger stations now keep a supply of assorted shoes on hand...
...course if the beach turned out to be ten miles from the nearest hotel and the sand flies seemed insatiable. But today, with the increasing sophistication of the U.S. vacationist and the enterprise of the developers, the Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino, and the best floor shows east of Las Vegas. For those who yearn for nothing more than roughing it in total isolation, there are still remote, palm...
...reason for the popularity of AMC stock was its compact price. Even at last week's high, American Motors sold for less than half the cheapest of the Big Three stocks; yet its 10-to-1 price-earnings ratio was as good or better than the bigger automakers could boast. Another attraction to investors was the fact that AMC is one of the few big U.S. industrial corporations with no long-term debt to worry about; since its brush with bankruptcy in the early 1950s, the company has totally paid off its once crushing burden of debt, and such...