Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dingbat Peters wheeling down a dirt road, radio blasting, with funny money blowing out of the back of the car. She has one foot on the dashboard, and bubble-gum bubbles are popping out of her funny little rosebud mouth, right there in the middle of her funny big custard-pie face...
...everyone was dismayed. Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman called the comments "a big step forward." More significantly, key American-Jewish community leaders also praised Baker's directness. "It was a fair speech that touched every base," said Thomas A. Dine, executive director of AIPAC, even as some of his members branded the initiative "hostile." Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, former president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said the Secretary "deserves to be commended, not criticized." Pointing out that the tougher demands had been made on the Arabs, Schindler asked, "Is it better to hear...
...Lucy Elizabeth must share the credit and the blame. "I was happy to get your letter, especially the news that someone else has noted your writing ability," she remarks after learning of her son's job opportunity at the Times. No matter that his abilities had already earned him big-league distinction in Europe; Mother Baker thought the offer was just the break he needed...
...expense of the Japanese consumer's living standard. Example: the Japanese have only recently begun to do away with mandatory Saturday office hours. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen, in his recently published book The Enigma of Japanese Power, argues similarly that Japan is run by a near conspiracy of Big Business and bureaucracy, whose only concern is to expand global market share...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...