Word: biggest
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Viet Nam remains at once the biggest, least predictable issue. Should the war last five to ten years, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, newly elected chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, warned last week, "this disaster could, indeed, mean the death and burial of the Democratic Party." Few other Democrats share that gloomy view, but the war could cost a covey of doves their Senate seats in 1968. With 23 Democratic seats at stake v. only eleven for the G.O.P., the Democrats' 64-36 Senate majority could be drastically trimmed...
...where vast amounts of knowledge have to be condensed and jammed into a single meeting. The section men are left with huge chunks of the course material -- notably microeconomic theory for which they have to develop a teaching approach of their own. This ingenious division of labor, Gill's biggest improvement, has made the monster course smooth and flexible...
...public," insists Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman William H. Tucker, "should not have to wait half a generation for a railroad merger to be decided." In the case of the biggest railroad merger ever conceived-the union of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central into a gigantic 20,000-mile-long Penn Central-the public seems destined to wait at least that long...
...company that Kansas-born Louis L. Ward took over in 1960 was pretty much of a hand-to-mouth business-a predicament even for a candymaker. It was doubly embarrassing because Russell Stover Candies, Inc., happened to be one of the U.S.'s biggest manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of quality chocolates. As president and chairman, however, Ward, 46, has worked wonders. Profits have increased by over 500%, and last week Ward announced record six-month earnings of $3,600,000 on sales of $26.7 million...
...Instead of easing to a planned-for 7½%, growth plunged to a slim 1.2% last year. Corporate profits fell 15%, while unemployment, once virtually nonexistent, has risen to 10% of the labor force, or 99,000 workers. Population growth virtually halted as 12,000 Israelis, in the biggest exodus since the country was founded, emigrated in search of work. Even more startling were the queues at unemployment offices, when some 2,000 dispirited workers were handed monthly checks of up to $78 under the first dole in Israel's history...