Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would mean the debt could also grow 7% a year without getting any bigger relative to the economy as a whole. Both would be growing at 7%, just as with a family whose income goes up a bit each year and therefore feels it can afford to take on a little more debt. Except that in the case of the U.S. economy, still the largest in the world, taking on an extra 7% in debt amounts to taking on an additional $175 billion...
...useless to point fingers. No single player, no single coach, should bear the responsibility for a loss so devastating. Penn was bigger, faster, stronger--and 39 points better...
Harvard, traditionally a skating team, proved it could play rough-and-tumble hockey with its bigger foes. Defenseman Kevan Melrose and the team's fourth line, composed of Craig Taucher, Paul Howley and Ed Presz, were aggressive skaters, unafraid of taking the body...
Bush pollster Robert Teeter, interviewed onNBC-TV's "Meet the Press," rejected complaintsthat the vice president had run a nasty campaignand said private GOP surveys showed Bush leadingby a bigger margin than reported by the network...
Cartographers have long known that the images on maps often do not reflect the actual shapes and relative sizes of continents and seas. In the widely used map projection drawn in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, Greenland is exaggerated 16 times and appears to be bigger than South America, even though it is only about the size of Mexico. The National Geographic's Van der Grinten projection, which has been used for the past 66 years, shows Alaska blown up to five times its real size, making it appear the rough equivalent of Brazil, which is actually...