Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told. It was still alive, lashed under a fisherman's canoe. With only a mask and snorkel, Scoones ventured underwater to free his battle-fatigued quarry, then nudged the fish into a current. That was enough to revive the coelacanth for the camera. Pictures taken, Scoones returned the big catch to the natives−for sale, of course, to scientists...
...time fee according to degree of deshabille: $100 clothed, $200 seminude ("topless, see-through blouse and so forth") and $400 nude ("something you wouldn't see on the beach or the street"). Organized according to categorical imperative, Chan's past work has included "Girls of the Big Ten" and "Girls of Washington." Fourteen years' experience has led him to expect his arrival in a new town to be treated as a news event, but his latest reconnaissance mission produced an even more satisfying furor than usual...
Having screened about 100 candidates at each campus, Chan claimed to be delighted by the response. "Frankly, I always have the best results in a small community," he confides. "The local papers and television and radio come after me. I can get lost in a big city...
...monetary substitute can be found. In theory, there is nothing wrong with continuing to use the dollar as the world's primary currency for international trading and holdings of national reserves. But the U.S. has printed so much money to cover federal budget deficits, and has run such big balance of payments deficits, that as many as $700 billion in greenbacks are swirling like confetti through the money markets of Europe and the Far East...
...quietly booming, with their unemployment down to the 2½%-3½ range. They are the beneficiaries of economic diversification and the increasing desire of Americans to settle in cities that, as Beech Aircraft President Frank Hedrick puts it, "are small enough to allow individuals to excel and big enough to give them plenty of room to excel...