Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supercross," which made its only New England appearance of the year Saturday night in Foxboro's Sullivan Stadium. Supercross is sealed down, off-road motocross in which racers compete on a half-mile man-made course. Unlike indoor soccer or box lacrosse, supercross is not significantly different from its bigger, outdoor brother. It also boasts a number of features that have promoters, sponsors and racers licking their lips in anticipation of ticket sales...
Militia commanders remain suspicious that the cease-fire will be used by their opponents only to consolidate positions before the next bout of warfare. While President Gemayel has accepted in principle reforms that would give the Muslims a bigger role in running Lebanon, the precise details have yet to be worked out. Unless progress comes quickly, rice and rose water could give way once again to rifles and revenge...
...this can close [the issue] out." Still, Jackson's pro-Arab views on Middle East issues continue to bother many Jewish leaders. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, noted that "Jesse Jackson's problem with Jews is bigger than Mr. Farrakhan." Indeed, on Saturday when Jackson addressed Operation PUSH, the Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded, Minister Akbar Muhammed, Farrakhan's chief lieutenant, was onstage, and dozens of members of the Nation of Islam were in the audience...
...Liberation Army. He kissed miniature Cuban and American flags on his arrival in Miami and looked a bit bewildered as a throng of 250 people cheered him. Said he: "After 20 years, I didn't recognize some of my family. I was surprised to see the grandchildren are bigger than...
...spotted four human shapes and summoned a helicopter hovering over a nearby ravine, but by the time the chopper arrived they were gone. Another agent was about to leap out of his truck and arrest three illegals in Moody's Canyon when his radio crackled out news of bigger game: a dozen immigrants heading toward the fields abutting Otay Mesa Road. The patrolman gunned his Ram along rutted dirt paths, dodging boulders placed by pollos to slow him down. When he reached Otay Mesa Road, however, his quarry too had disappeared, presumably picked up by smugglers driving cars...