Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until then nobody had any idea of just how big Colombia's marijuana crop was. Former Assistant Attorney General Rodolfo Garcia Ordonez doubted reports that 25,000 acres were being used to grow marijuana. To disprove what he considered wild overestimates, he took a three-day helicopter tour of the northern provinces and made a "strict calculation." His final report: the weed was flourishing on not 25,000 but about 250,000 acres in Guajira. Perhaps 50,000 more acres are cultivated in the southern plains. "I was shocked," he said. "No one thought the problem could be of such...
...big money in the Colombian drug operations goes not to those who grow narcotics or process them, but to those who get them to the American consumer. One way to get the drugs out is to fly them from one of the hundreds of clandestine airstrips that have been bulldozed in Guajira peninsula. The Colombian army's map of the region is speckled with 150 pinpoints, but an officer admits, "There are so many illegal airstrips we don't really count them...
...does one judge whether-and how big-a deficit is appropriate? There is no simple answer, because deficits can have a variety of effects on the economy. As Arthur Burns, former Federal Reserve Board chairman, notes: "When the Government runs a budget deficit, it pumps more money into the pocketbooks of people than it takes out of their pocketbooks." That creates more demand for goods and services, which can put idle people and machines to work, or can make prices rise faster than they would if demand were lower...
...working for increased academic recognition of drama; by inspiring excellence in student productions through higher standards at the Loeb. What is exciting is the realization that we can help him, that Harvard is providing not just a facility, but a whole new field of research. That's why this big guy is fooling around with undergraduates...
...February 1976. With Harvard's then-awesome indoor track team threatening to lose the Big Three meet at Jadwin Gym, freshman Pete Fitzsimmons explodes at the end of the two-mile to win in a record 8:58. The team explodes and goes on a romp...