Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai who has good guanxi." In Shanghai itself the city's world-famous acrobats attract bigger audiences by sponsoring fashion shows between tumbles. A university in Guangdong has branched out to invest in a three-story bar in Shanghai whose top floor, called Lovers' World, features 15 banquettes where couples can smooch in privacy. Even the People's Liberation Army has got into the act. Knowing that...
...moment I think I'm safe because I'm in America," said Pei, who nonetheless has changed his telephone number. "There are much bigger government targets abroad...
WASHINGTON--The House yesterday approved President Bush's proposed cut in capital gains taxes, rejecting arguments of Democratic leaders that it would buy a windfall for the rich at the expense of a bigger budget deficit...
...were going to say what the biggest Ivy contest of the year was, you'd have to say Brown," Harvard goaltender Beth Reilly said. "It's an even bigger game because they've already tied Dartmouth. They're already vulnerable. If we beat them, our fate is in our own hands...
...casino promoters bought a television ad that showed $100 bills falling from the sky, and Atlantic City's voters were as mesmerized as if they had been tourists on the Boardwalk gawking at horses diving into pools and typewriters bigger than elephants. On the day in 1976 when the state referendum passed, they danced in the streets. Today Atlantic City has enough class to bring Cher, the queen of camp, back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination...