Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary of state has questioned whether the Soviet Union can play a bigger role in that region because of its human rights record and its lack of relations with Israel...
...Politicians for years viewed the aged as a uniform group -- physically and often mentally feeble, politically compliant, socially inert. The candidate who does so now risks being trampled by what one Congressman sweetly calls the 800-lb. gorilla. The American Association of Retired Persons, with 28 million members, is bigger than most countries. The Gray Panthers, with 80,000 members, pressures Congress on everything from health insurance to housing costs. This year the formidable gray lobby is moving full force into grass-roots presidential politics. And when it moves, the ground shakes...
Last year, though, Harvard was able to exchange its regular-season bananna republic for a post-season monarchy. Harvard went from big (20-2 regular season) to bigger (an ECAC Championship) in four easy steps--a pair of wins over Brown and victories over RPI and St. Lawrence in the ECAC Tournament...
...with her") and her thinking. "Debi's going to discover that there really are biochemical and physiological reasons for all these little things she's worked out on the ice. 'Oh, that's why!' she'll say. When the Olympics are over, I really think she'll need something bigger than she is, something as all-consuming as medicine...
...stroke last week, First Boston lost its takeover titans to two lures: greater freedom and, though each already makes about $6 million a year, bigger rewards. Wasserstein, 40, and Perella, 46, along with high-ranking Colleagues Charles Ward, 35, and William Lambert, 41, abruptly quit First Boston to start a rival firm. Adding to their employer's misery, they immediately began recruiting First Boston co-workers and clients. Their departure, while certainly the most dramatic Wall Street split in years, is only one episode in a broader upheaval and personnel shuffle taking place on the Street. In the wake...