Word: bigger
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...also finally on the increase is the feeling among Americans that enough is enough. A TIME/CNN poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week found that 86% of those interviewed believe crime is getting worse and 84% think violence resulting from the use of guns is becoming a bigger problem. Fully 57% worry about becoming victims, 22% say they or members of their families have been threatened by someone with a gun, and 30% are so fearful of being assaulted on the street that they would just as soon carry a gun themselves. An overwhelming 89% favor a two-week...
...Worldwatch Institute quietly sent out copies of his State of the World report, which will reach 250,000 leaders in 150 nations. The report has become something of a bible on the precariousness of our food supply. Brown's warning: if the drought continues, food security could be a bigger problem by fall than military security...
...enough rat problem. The rodents roam around Chinatown, and were recently spotted in city hall for the first time in memory. Says Mark Iapicca, who runs a parking lot beneath the elevated Central Artery: "There are already more rats than people around here, and they're bigger than my dog. They're underground now, but what happens when they go aboveground...
Bush has an even bigger problem getting John Tower confirmed as Defense Secretary. Initially, it looked as if the Armed Services Committee would ultimately observe protocol: the President's nominee does not have to be someone the committee members would choose, just someone they can stomach. "Ironbutt," as Tower was known in the Senate for his imperious ways and wait-'em-out negotiating style, would never win a popularity contest. Nevertheless, the hearings started out as a love fest, with the former chair of the committee receiving a round of applause at the end of his first day of testimony...
That sense is enhanced in most barn restorations. "Bigger is the whole concept," says Michigan renovation expert David Ciolek, who has rehabbed hundreds of barns around the country. Ciolek creates higher, longer open spaces by a process called trussing. First he rearranges the old post-and-beam construction, then transfers the weight of the roof and hayloft to the outside walls by means of triangular wooden supports. Says Illinois livestock farmer Janis King, who had Ciolek fix up an 1870 barn: "Unless lightning strikes, the barn will be here another 100 years...