Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...altruism, a move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it . . . in all things, generosity...
...used steroids. Nearly a third of the students surveyed took the drugs to acquire that brawny look. Declares "Ian," a 5-ft. 6-in., 115-lb. 17-year-old from Boston, who has been popping pills for three months: "I'm sick of being small. I want to be bigger...
...British capital to a lack of personal discipline on the part of its 6.8 million inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act. Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks...
...billion to $40 billion from cherished defense and social programs. "It's fairly likely that a modest increase in the gasoline tax will be included" in whatever package emerges, says California's Beilenson. "You've got to have something that's wrapped up with a solution for a bigger problem to provide political cover." If that cover proves secure enough, "gas tax" just might be words that George Bush would pronounce...
...reason. Trump is a brilliant dealmaker with almost no sense of his own emotions or his own ( identity, this man says. He is a kind of black hole in space, which cannot be filled no matter what Trump does. Looking toward the future, this associate foresees Trump building bigger and bigger projects in his attempts to fill the hole but finally ending, like Howard Hughes, a multibillionaire living all alone in one room...