Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether hoping for a bigger tip or simply moved by her attention, the man suddenly proclaims, "If your husband were here today, Nicaragua would be a happy land...
...years, Harvard has been the city's biggest landlord. This year it grew even bigger. A year ago, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) unveiled plans to build a five-story "limited convenience" hotel on property across from the Harvard Union. In the fall, the University purchased the Quality Motor Inn and the Bence Pharmacy building on Mass. Ave. And in March, Harvard purchased from the St. Paul's Rectory the largest undeveloped plot in the Square...
THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
...contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing and covers the events in its own array of periodicals. The company promotes its contests with a weekly cable-TV show, The Bassmasters, and operates a thriving network of 2,000 amateur fishing clubs...
...Denver, despite the economy's woes, the new airport still faces determined opposition. It will be a mammoth project, far bigger than Chicago's O'Hare and Dallas-Fort Worth combined. Building it will entail shutting down the 60-year-old Stapleton Airport, the nation's fifth busiest...