Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even bigger advantage, he adds, is speed. Take the arduous night three weeks ago when TIME produced its special election issue, which went to press just ten hours after the last polls closed. Without computer page makeup, the time-consuming chores of cut and paste would "have prevented the inclusion of late-breaking additions to stories. "With this system," says Feeback, "a new part of a story could be fitted into the layout five minutes after it was written and edited...
...gross national product, or total output of goods and services, at a mere 1.9%, vs. 7.1 % in the previous three months. It reported a 7.3% drop in after-tax corporate profits during the third quarter. Moreover, October reports disclosed a slight but unexpected decline in consumer spending, and much bigger falloffs in housing starts (9.8%) and factory orders for durable goods...
Most of the cutbacks have come from regional banks that can afford to pull out because their stakes are small. The bigger banks, by contrast, are in so deep that they have no choice but to keep on lending. If they were to demand repayment, the economies of Latin America would deteriorate and defaults might result. Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist at Morgan Guaranty, projects that U.S. bank loans to developing countries will rise by about 5% annually during the next few years...
...result of its triumph before more than 50 fans at Blodgett Pool, the seven-time defending Eastern Seaboard Champion Harvard squad (now 2-0) reaffirmed its position as the Beast of the East and served notice to all that it's bigger and better than ever...
Kenworthy, now a junior and captain of the Harvard men's soccer team, is still pretty good and still a lot bigger...