Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bigger. The President was particularly eager to hold the line on the oilworkers agreement because, as the first settlement under the guideposts, it may also set a pattern for this year's heavy calendar of labor talks. The Teamsters, whose contract expires March 31, will provide the next big test. Though they are expected to put up a tougher fight than the OCAW, the oil settlement is bound to have some restraining influence...
Occupancy rates nationwide have jumped from about 64% in 1975 to more than 72%, and many top hostelries in big cities are doing even better. First-class hotels in Dallas were almost 80% filled last year. Week after week in Houston's Southwest Galleria district, the Galleria Plaza and the Houston Oaks fill 95% of their rooms. Chicago's O'Hare Hilton runs at more than 100% capacity-with strangers bedding down with strangers or sleeping on couches in the lobby and in booths in the restaurant-when storms or fog grounds planes. Says General Manager Lynn...
...Graham showed an eye for opportunity and a taste for big-city journalism at the Harvard Crimson in 1966; when the Boston dailies were struck that year, Graham and his colleagues rushed out the Boston Crimson, a four-page paper that focused on local news and had a circulation of 30,000. After graduation and a tour as a specialist 5 Army information officer in the Viet Nam bush, Graham decided to learn about Washington by spending 18 months as a beat cop in a tough southeast neighborhood. At the Post, he has worked as reporter, salesman, night production manager...
After the other big guns headed back to Germany, England and France, respectively, from the Guadeloupe summit, the Carters lingered on for a brief loll in the sun. The President and his wife jogged and fished for barracuda (Rosalym caught a bigger one than Jimmy). But the recreational high point came when the Carters and Daughter Amy decided to try scuba diving. "Does the President know how to scuba?" asked a worried reporter. "God, I hope so," answered Press Secretary Jody Powell. In fact, Jimmy managed to stay under for a respectable 35 minutes. "Did you bring back anything...
...play that way too. So every day I asked how he felt." The answers were reassuring but unconvincing, until the morning of the game. Then Bleier and the Steelers got incontrovertible evidence that all was well with Terry Bradshaw, Louisiana cattle rancher and quarterback. "I saw him put a big old chaw of tobacco in his mouth, and if he could stomach that, he could stomach anything. That's when I knew everything was going to be all right...