Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works out. Foreman is like the dynamo of old, steadily pounding home sledgehammer blows. Five rounds later and barely sweating, he halts to regale the faithful. "I should be carrying a cane," he jests. "My training camp is Baskin-Robbins. But if Tyson wins, it's only Lamborghinis and big houses for himself. Means nothing. If I win, every man over 40 can grab his Geritol and have a toast...
...amid slumping car sales. Mazda spent only about $100 million to develop the Miata, a fraction of what U.S. manufacturers typically spend to bring out a new model. For one thing, the Miata is devoid of digital display panels, electronic suspension and other costly gewgaws favored by Detroit's Big Three. Instead, Mazda lavished attention on Miata's engine, a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder model that uses more valves per cylinder (four instead of two) to provide greater zip. Mazda also focused on such fine points as the simplicity of the convertible top's operation, the feel...
...Skylab space station and the series of unmanned missions that will reach its climax next month when Voyager 2 arrives at Neptune -- the program seemed to founder. The space shuttle, for example, was oversold as the one answer to U.S. space-transportation needs. But it is too big to put astronauts in space efficiently, too small to launch the largest payloads and too unreliable to live up to the 60-flight-per-year schedule once promised. The result, even before the Challenger accident: a backlog of unlaunched missions...
...Big bucks. Heaps of hypocrisy. Influence peddling by prominent Republicans. The unfolding scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is the kind of story that guarantees front-page play. It is also the kind of story that could guarantee brilliant future careers, perhaps even Pulitzer Prizes, for enterprising journalists. So reporters have pounced on Washington's latest example of sleaze. There is just one hitch: it's yesterday's news. All that murky bureaucratic back scratching and buck passing happened during the heyday of the Reagan Administration. Where was the ever vigilant press back then...
...Watt's name around HUD offices in Baltimore in connection with a low-income-housing rehabilitation project that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit Kingsley Park development but could not turn up any references to Watt. Jacobson says Siegel flatly denied that Watt was involved. Since Jacobson could not confirm the story, she shelved...