Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mirroring the heated debate on terms and deficits in the presidential elections, exchanges between the two Republication candidates for the Massachusetts Senate sent have increasingly centered on whether the government should take a bigger bite out of your income...
...that the President's 55-min. speech disappointed his listeners. On the contrary, they interrupted it 95 times with applause. They answered with hearty choruses of "No!" when Reagan asked whether they had any doubts that the Democrats would "make Government bigger than ever and deficits even worse, raise unemployment" and "make unilateral and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union." In fact, they were so eager to be roused that they would not allow Reagan to complete one of his punch lines. Saying that he was tempted to compare Democratic spending habits to those of a drunken sailor, Reagan...
...totally trusted by the President and Mrs. Reagan and can say anything he wants to either one of them. His power is so great, in fact, that colleagues often wish he would pay more attention to what they feel are matters of substance. Deaver, they are certain, could force bigger results...
...weapons, nicer digs and a bigger buck boost U.S. morale...
Actors, like rock-'n'-roll singers, find something irresistible about a Southern accent. Those languid, drawling syllables just seem to make emotions sound bigger. That may be the least of the reasons why Tennessee Williams' plays have endured, but in the opening minutes of Showtime's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it is the most obvious. (The production, part of the network's "Broadway on Showtime" series, premiered on Sunday and will repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie...