Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed acquisition will not shake up the rankings in the $230 billion- a-year U.S. auto industry. For increasingly robust Chrysler (1986 profits of $1.4 billion on sales of $22.6 billion), the deal would merely add AMC's piddling .7% car market share to the bigger firm's 10.3%. That would still leave the merged company far behind No. 2 Ford (18%) and GM (39.6%). But the purchase will help Chrysler solve a pressing problem: its factories do not have the capacity to produce enough cars to meet demand. Chrysler had started easing that production crunch by contracting...
Young adds that he would like to make the Union a lot bigger and add more sound-proof practice rooms, more free space to accommodate the changing interests of freshmen, more quiet space and more eating space. But, lacking a magic wand and the necessary funds, Young does not see a way to accomplish these changes...
Boston Garden was transformed into a bigger Bright Center Saturday when the Harvard men's hockey team played St. Lawrence in the final of the ECAC Tournament. But the usual Harvard cheers, for the home rink, seemed strangely rude in the Garden...
...cease-fire is not an end in itself; it sets up conditions for something bigger, an armistice, a peaceful settlement," said the Miami resident. "The Sandinistas see cease-fire as an end in itself, to disarm their opponents and get the United States...
...face it, the Colonial League not only has bigger teams, but better ones. By playing Bucknell, Harvard competes against a better team than it is used to facing...