Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restraints were lifted. Though the department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded and unleaded could increase to 8?. Some experts fear that a big differential between the two kinds of gas would tempt motorists to use leaded in cars designed for unleaded. That would damage the car's antipollution gear and increase exhaust emissions...
Paper Mate executives, who expect the Eraser Mate to capture a big share of the U.S.'s $1 billion annual sales of writing instruments, say that it is the biggest advance in pens since felt tips appeared in the 1950s. Says Paper Mate President William Holtsnider: "What we're doing is playing with the fundamental dynamics of writing." At the rival Bic company, a spokesman scoffs...
...major organizational fault of the current system is that it virtually assures conflict between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a kind of guardian of federal funds, and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard...
...acquired recognition, Waugh adopted the ways and means of a country gentleman. In a big house he lived surrounded by six children, his second wife Laura, servants, heavy furniture, mullioned windows and good bindings. He was never chatty about his work. On those few occasions when he lowered the drawbridge to journalists, Waugh remained grandly indifferent to explanations of his comic genius. He insisted, "I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language...
...give me death. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Let the people rule. Horace Greeley's popularization of "Go West, young man" not only helped in spire California-bound migration but even today conjures up appealing images. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" brings, back the vanished world of Theodore Roosevelt's America. Modern America? The war to end war. A chicken in every pot. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Remember Pearl Harbor. We shall overcome. Hell no, we won't go. Whip inflation...