Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grain sits in huge stockpiles -- a sign that prices will stay low until those inventories can be reduced. Moreover, this year's farm- income figures were inflated by $22.4 billion in Government subsidies, including $12 billion paid to farmers to leave idle 68.5 million acres of cropland (an area bigger than Colorado). Now those payouts are threatened by Washington's efforts to slash the federal deficit. "This has been a good year, but everyone's looking over his shoulder," warns Iowa State University Economist Neil Harl. "There are still some dark clouds...
...Today Show" host confidently and frequently cut off the 12 men likely to be the next leader of the free world. Contrast that with his obsequious behavior on t.v. the night before with Mikhail Gorbachev--a telegenic and articulate Mayor Daleytype--and you get an idea who's a bigger ratings draw and why Judge Robert Bork has some misgiving about the First Amendment. "I see," Brokaw would say, nodding with an impressed smile to Gorbachev answers like "We have eliminated the exploitation of man by man. We have no unemployed!" to such questions as "Why are there no human...
...North Carolina] would have been a bit of a problem for us," Getman said. "We're a much better team on a bigger field...
...European countries exceed. At the same time, Mikulic is desperately trying to finance $19 billion in hard-currency debt. "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's greatest crisis in almost 40 years," said a Western diplomat long resident in Belgrade. "All the indications are that Mikulic cannot survive. But the bigger question is whether the entire country is now heading toward chaos and unrest...
...stretching back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...