Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statutes and works at the cost of instituting oppressive regulations on farmers, especially small ones. It is important not to defeat it, but to do so resoundingly, in order to discourage similarly ill-considered initiatives. In particular, many animal activists see this as a trial run against a much bigger foe, the biomedical research establishment...
Offensive Line: Big, bad and beautiful. Last week, these guys ran over Brown. Ask Art McMahon, who was full of praise for the men in the trenches. Out-of-league opponents tend to be bigger than Ivy League foes, do it will be interesting to see what Maurice Frilot, Shawn Sensky and company can do against the Terriers...
...have kept up my skating because I felt it helped my dancing. You always hear people tooting about how dance or ballet helps skating, but in a very physical way skating helps dance. An arena is so much bigger than the stage. It gives you a great sense of expansion. Then when you go back to the stage you have an enormous amount of control over the space," Healy says...
They need not have worried: the deals are back -- and bigger and bolder than ever. Last week top executives at RJR Nabisco stunned Wall Street by proposing what would be the biggest takeover in U.S. history: a $17.6 billion leveraged buyout by management of the tobacco and food conglomerate. (Among its top brands: Winston cigarettes, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Life Savers candy.) The RJR executives, with the help of the Shearson Lehman Hutton investment firm, hope to borrow close to $16 billion to finance the deal. If the transaction is completed, it would eclipse Chevron's $13.3 billion acquisition...
There the votes will be tallied live on C-SPAN in a broadcast anchored by Mary Alice Williams of CNN and several New York City high schoolers. "This gives students a chance to feel like they are part of something bigger," says Jeremi Suri, 16. Erin Murphy, 17, thinks the mock election will be taken seriously by politicians. After all, she says, "many of us will be voting for real in the next presidential election...