Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Big government is clearly here to stay, whether we like it or not," said Bok. "There are simply a great many problems in society that can only be addressed directly with government help...
...Liman said control of the army would become increasingly crucial. "The big question is the loyalty of an army that is called the People's Army," Liman said...
...big bastion of mediocre evil," Kaplan added, smiling sweetly...
Last year, as part of a student, prounion delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
Liberal Democrat Thomas S. Foley, 60, has managed to win 13 elections to the House of Representatives from a mostly conservative Republican farming district around Spokane in eastern Washington. A big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.), gregarious Irishman, Foley can regale a gaggle of beer guzzlers with a slightly off-color tale, then quote Rousseau, Burke and Hobbes in a symposium of scholars at the Library of Congress...