Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most firms don't include pro bono work when they figure their billable hours," Butts adds. "So the associates who do it are taking on a bigger chore than their colleagues. That's a huge disadvantage...
Unfortunately, development has had many negative impacts on the city as well. City residents feel the costs of new construction in terms of increased traffic and polution. And as the city allows the creation of more and bigger office buildings and shopping malls, homeowners and tenants alike are driven out of town...
...ideal free-market tax system would leave an investor indifferent between, say, a savings account paying 10% a year and a stock expected to rise 10% a year. But tax-free compounding means that, for a top- bracket taxpayer the after-tax profit on the stock will be 45% bigger after 20 years...
...another, and at whatever cost, the earthquake damage will be repaired. The bigger question is whether the Bay Area's prosperity will be affected over the long term. Though the region's economy is still growing, at least since 1983 it has fallen behind that of the Los Angeles area, and the Bay Area has lost relative importance as a financial, insurance and manufacturing center. It is too early to tell whether the earthquake will affect that trend, especially since the Los Angeles area is equally, if not more, vulnerable to the fearsome...
...University's last capital campaign ended in1986 and raised more than $350 million. Butfundraisers now say Harvard is ready for anotherdrive--a bigger and better...