Word: bigs
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Since the downturn began, Japanese manufacturers have made even greater inroads than in healthy times. Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda posted higher sales and gains in U.S. market share in the first half of 1989, largely at the expense of European imports, Chrysler and GM. Of the Big Three, only Ford managed to raise its market share, because its sales slump has been smaller than that of its rivals...
...television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence, of the way it ravaged the attention span needed for reading. Who was keeping kids away from TV sets then? How did promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should it be left to Gore to express moral disapproval of a group calling itself Dead Kennedys (sample lyric: "I kill children, I love...
...Big Bush's presidential efforts accelerated in early 1987, George and the second oldest son Jeb had doubts about Lee Atwater as campaign manager. To % allay those concerns, Atwater invited one of the brothers to join the campaign organization full-time. So George, Laura and their twin daughters moved to Washington for the duration. After a dozen years of independence, he was back in his father's orbit being called Junior...
...Baltoro Glacier, just short of a sweeping ridgeline called the Conway Saddle. Their fire is aimed over the ridge at similar positions manned by Indian troops seven miles away on the Siachen Glacier, the longest in the Karakoram mountains. When the weather is clear, the big guns sometimes boom round the clock...
Last week M-19 agreed to put down its guns. Saying he was "ready for the big leap," rebel leader Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, 37, signed an agreement with the government to demobilize in exchange for a general amnesty and the right to form a political party that could participate in elections scheduled for next December...