Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring, and politicians' thoughts turn to the elections five months away. Rent control has been a big part of every city election since its adoption in 1970, and a group a city landlords may have begun efforts in the last two weeks to make sure that this political season will be no exception...
...tough, because they're pretty fair teams, and the guys are still recovering from a really big effort out west," coach Dave Fish said this week. "But I think we have a very good team, and I'd like to see us go down there and get two wins...
...answer lies in the structure of energy production in this country, which is based on large power companies and huge generating plants in central locations. Power production is a very big-time, high-technology game, and a lot of big money flows into the power company coffers as a result of the oligopolistic concentration of capital in the power industry. Given that the fossil fuel honeymoon is just about over, the big power companies know they must find another way. But because of their orientation, they concentrate their search for alternatives on energy sources that will produce massive amounts...
...school, and eventually to Japan itself, but when he returned to Harvard in 1946 Levenson turned to China, the country that held his concern for the rest of his life, earning a Ph.D. in 1949. Looking back on this choice, Levenson said in 1968, "In Chinese history there were big open spaces and the promise of a road that went the long way home...The interest in China is an interest in the fact that the questions which confront China are more and more becoming the same questions which confront us...which in a cosmopolitan world we all share...
...very, very impressive today. Nothing bothered him. That's a big plus for us now," he added...