Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reports it. She has been widely criticized for writing nonfiction with composite characters and compressed time. Ten years ago, she made an out- of-court settlement in a plagiarism suit involving her best-selling book Passages. Spirit of Survival is practically all Sheehy, and that is an even bigger problem. Her effort to popularize a psychology of survival is hopelessly muddled by her need to dramatize herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story about Cambodian child refugees. There she meets Phat Mohm...
...From a file drawer he fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours...
...Cola control over the last major independent film producer in Hollywood, a substantial movie inventory and a television division that produces such popular shows as T.J. Hooker and Days of Our Lives. At first Columbia churned out movie after movie, as if trying to muscle its way to a bigger market share. That approach led to one smash hit, Ghostbusters, and a string of expensive clinkers, including The Slugger's Wife, Perfect and Crossroads. But at the same time, Columbia forged a deal with Home Box Office and CBS to create Tri-Star Pictures as a jointly financed vehicle...
...population. Many hope to move up, as the brokers put it. Translation: they want a more expensive house with more space or more status. Emily and Bill Jones aim to step up from their three- bedroom ranch house in Marietta, Ga. Says Emily: "We are building something bigger, better, newer." Developers are responding to the demand. A survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders reports that about 80% of all builders plan to begin constructing homes for the "move-up market" this year, compared with...
...promoting breakfast cereal and laundry detergent, advertising agencies often trumpet the message that giant size is the best size. Now they are embracing the bigger-is-better philosophy for themselves. Merger mania is turning Madison Avenue agencies into megashops with clients in almost every business and bases in every major world market. In the past month alone, three huge mergers involving billions of dollars in advertising have made headlines...