Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deft maneuver. John, Jere and Jodie Thompson, whose father Joe founded the firm in 1927, offered to buy the rest of the company for $3.8 billion, or $77 a share, and take it private. Just seven weeks ago, Southland stock traded at $48. But investors may reap yet bigger rewards. Southland stock closed the week above $79 a share, a sign that speculators believe a raider may surface with a higher...
...finding, were kept secret.) Several legislators believe the number of known findings is more than in any previous Administration. More important, the operations have grown steadily in size, importance and cost. Covert operations, says Anthony Beilenson, a California Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, are a "much bigger portion of the foreign policy pie than ever before...
...Virginians to provide direction. In the absence of Jefferson, the state's intellectual leadership inevitably came from "Jemmy" Madison, who was to become "the Father of the Constitution." He was shy and soft-spoken, a slender bachelor about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, and, according to one account, "no bigger than a half a piece of soap." His father was a wealthy landowner (and slaveholder), and Madison never had to work for a living. He studied philosophy at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), became an early supporter of the Revolution, helped write the Virginia constitution...
...that the civil docket still makes room for more than whiplash, malpractice, what have you, still accommodates the citizen who has nothing grander to gain than the Republic's concession that he was right and it was wrong, which is pretty grand. In Louisiana, a Vietnamese schoolgirl, no bigger than a pencil sharpened to a nub, had no larger scheme than to publish a newspaper for the "out crowd" at her Louisiana high school, but she ran afoul of her principal nonetheless. In California, a black entrepreneur who sports a thick thatch of provocative dreadlocks and enjoys late-night strolls...
Television and radio are putting on even bigger exhibitions, covering the entire country. CBS is presenting Bicentennial minutes that run between programs, while PBS has 90 three-minute reports from Bill Moyers. Moyers is also doing eleven one-hour specials, interviewing such constitutional experts as Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will...