Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back at the U.S. for Jimmy Carter's criticism of the repression...
sand, and in the water opposite the Carlton Hotel, where the big-money deals are made, bobbed a flotilla of eight boats, each with a different letter painted on its sail: SUPERMAN...
Superman will almost certainly be this year's big Christmas movie...
...before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...
America's regulatory history dates back to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission 91 years ago, and big growth came during the New Deal, when such agencies as the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission were started. But most of the excesses that are drawing fire were born in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, when the focus turned from industry control to social reform and a large number of new bureaus were formed, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Consumer Product Safety...