Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as Venezuela, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Though some Caribbean nations would prefer unilateral assistance from the U.S., a multinational approach would short-cut the resentment that stemmed from John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, which many Caribbeans viewed as an attempt by the U.S. to play a "big daddy" role...
Though Moscow has long been upset by celebrated defectors, it has rarely taken violent action to bring them back home in the post-Stalin era. Why the special interest in a gold medal canoeist? A big clue could lie in the book Cesiunas was planning to write for publication in the West prior to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The subject: an expose of how Soviet athletes use drugs in order to excel in international competitions...
Some entrepreneurs also complain that corporate giants are indifferent to small projects. Harris J. Bixler, president of Boston's Avco Everett Research Laboratory, contends that new products that promise tidy but unextravagant revenues go unsupported by Big Business even though the initial investment might be low. Says he: "Large companies could care less about the guy who has a $100,000 idea. They'd lose that in the paper-clip account." Such technological triumphs as Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas...
...customers aplenty for the expensive, high-precision toys known in the automotive trade as exotic cars. Most of the buyers are men in their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing up to buy Aston Martin's wedge-shaped, futuristic, four-door Lagonda, currently $87,000 and sold out until...
...opulent score has long attracted a cult following. It is justifiable in such numbers as Standing on the Corner, Big D and Don 't Cry. The evening's choicest prize is the marvel of the human voice - unamplified. Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. They and their colleagues practice vocal witchcraft. -T.E.K...