Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beanpot Championships would certainly light up some faces here in Cambridge, but they're not the biggest 'Pots in town. Harvard has been known to take bigger pots home. Such as the ECAC Championship trophy. And a silver platter for finishing second in the NCAA Tournament...
...barn burnings on this caucus night. But the airwaves will have been heated with exorbitant claims of the leadership qualities of the candidates, and the television folk heroes will have arrived along with 2,499 other journalists. The hype will reach to the far stars. Iowa will seem far bigger than it really is. America will have to rely on the enduring sense of those quiet heartland people...
...Iowans are downbeat, vs. 60% of Democrats at large. Most Iowans, like Americans generally, support increased federal spending on education, care for the elderly, cleanup of the environment and help for the homeless. Similarly, majorities in both parties say they are willing to pay higher taxes to finance bigger social programs. % But despite their reputation for liberal views, Iowans are less likely to support big-buck programs. Among Democrats, for instance, 73% in Iowa favor larger Government subsidies for education; nationally, the figure...
...million in 1987, Ford sales declined only 1%, to 2 million cars. In just one year, GM's U.S. market share shrank from 41% to 37%, while Ford's grew from 18% to 20%. Moreover, by earning more on each car, Ford continued to rack up bigger profits than its much larger rival. Through the first nine months of 1987, GM earned $2.7 billion on revenues of $75.4 billion, but Ford cleared $3.7 billion on $52.9 billion...
...else wants to. But on Black Monday the system virtually collapsed. Many of the 450 specialists were unable or unwilling to spend enough money to keep their stocks from going into free fall. Several specialist firms exhausted their capital and went out of business or were absorbed by bigger brokerage houses. The exchange, since then, has been reviewing what happened to the * prices of individual stocks in the crash. One such stock, that of the J.P. Morgan banking company, closed at 27.75 on Black Monday, but opened at 47 the next morning, an extraordinary leap in the face...