Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grant will allow me to take bigger risks, develop new approaches and look at the larger issues," said grant recipient Martin E. Dorf, Med School professor of Pathology...
...everyone was satisfied with IBM's new system. Large business users complained last week that IBM has yet to offer a way to connect desktop personal computers with the bigger units used by insurance companies, banks and other service-industry giants. Said Carl Williams, manager of information systems at the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency: "It's the mainframes that do the grunt work that runs the company. By leaving them out, IBM fails to address our requirements." Big Blue promises to deliver that kind of system, but declines to say exactly when...
...first time the U.S. is willing to throw its weight behind an effort to solve the dangerous debt problem. Said Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, a managing director of the First Boston investment firm: "It is a fundamental step forward for the U.S. to say that the problem is bigger than they thought...
...forgot about it for a year or so because it was not supposed to grow under Reagan's new economics. It got bigger. So I went over to the Treasury one day in 1983. Asked Secretary Donald Regan, Where does one find this Debt monster? He referred me to an assistant secretary, who referred me to another assistant secretary, who was in Japan or someplace. The trail got cold...
Followed down a long corridor, heart pounding. Around a corner, over some brown carpet, into a little office. In the center was a computer terminal, no bigger than a portable TV. Moment of doubt. Everything so modest, so quiet. The terminal clacking casually. Could this contain the scourge of the world's moneybags, the thing that made Prime Ministers age and caused political parties to rise and fall...