Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descendants of the Indians who wiped out George Custer and his men in 1876, the displays commemorating the battle of Little Big Horn are gallingly one-sided. In recent years Indian spokesmen have tried to persuade the Government to tell more of their side. Newly appointed Custer Battlefield National Monument superintendent Barbara Booner, the first Native American to hold the post, may resolve the controversy...
...more, of the skin and using an array of design and construction tricks to camouflage body flaws. Higher necklines and underwire bras help disguise a large bust; ruffles and other upper-body froufrous distract from a small one. Lower-cut legs and flirty little skirts divert attention from big hips and thighs, while high waistlines, belts and stomach-control panels are doing their bit to hide the belly...
Like nervous bachelors worried they may never find a mate, many of the Big Eight accounting firms in the U.S. have begun stampeding to the altar. Last week Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross announced that they had agreed to join forces as Deloitte & Touche (total revenues: $3.9 billion). Earlier the same day Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse revealed that they too have begun negotiating a merger that would produce a $4.9 billion firm. The announcements followed a decision by Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young in June to consummate their own $4.3 billion corporate marriage...
...skiff, floating among the creeks and inlets of coastal Rhode Island. In paragraph two, Pierce ponders the marsh grass around him and has an insight: "Only the spartinas thrived in the salt flood, shut themselves against the salt but drank the water. Smart grass. If he ever got his big boat built he might just call her Spartina, though he ought to call her after his wife...
...anything except the chance to make a decent living at what he knows best. The world needs seafood, and Pierce has learned through long experience how to find and catch it. He is, in fact, an archetypal figure in American literature, the little guy at odds with big institutions, battling the triumph of newfangled shoddiness over old traditions. In addition, he possesses enough self-awareness to recognize and regret his bursts of bad behavior...