Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields?in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...
There sure isn't. The game is dominated by strong-willed individualists, led by the fiery Connors, 26, and the icy Bjorn Borg, 22, his great Swedish rival, who compete in a series of tournaments round the world for big money that is getting bigger all the time. Borg has earned $661,000, Connors $519,000 and Vitas Gerulaitis $425,000 to date this year...
...hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
...Sullivan Show and the current Saturday Night Live. This week an hour-long TV special, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, is on view in the U.S. And, of course, the Muppets Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, and the renowned Big Bird, who is 8 ft. tall and has not just an arm but an entire person inside him, have presided over Sesame Street since that wonderfully imaginative children's show began ten years...
...millions of dollars." Until then HA! is supported handsomely by fat merchandising contracts with such outfits as Fisher-Price Toys and Hallmark Cards, Inc. Muppet faces appear on coffee mugs, T shirts, yo-yos, playing cards, pillowcases and anything else that will take an imprint. Henson is good at big money deals and smart enough not to boast about them. "It's important to me that the audience doesn't think of us in terms of figures," he says. "I don't want people looking at the Muppets and thinking, 'How much are they worth?' It's just...