Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case did not seem to add up to a big-league corporate scandal. For more than three years, the IRS and the FBI investigated kickback schemes at Gulf Power, an electric utility based in Pensacola, Fla., and all they produced were the convictions of two former managers. But last month the affair took a sudden, dramatic turn. Moments after taking off from Pensacola, a company plane caught fire and crashed, killing its two-man crew and the only passenger...
...thick coating of Teflon -- and maybe all three. Through four terms, Mayor Tom Bradley, 71, managed to keep his troubled nation-within-a-state from disintegrating completely without himself succumbing to hubris or, worse, scandal. A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches. Bad judgment was something else...
...vital crossroad it once was. Since World War II, the U.S. has developed fleets in both the Atlantic and Pacific as well as major ports on both coasts. Today U.S. military vessels make only about 30 trips a year through the canal; the Navy's largest carriers are too big for the locks. "It's only useful now to do some rearranging of the fleet in preparation for war," says Ambler Moss, a former U.S. Ambassador to Panama. "It's not vital enough to the national interest to fall on your own sword...
...Black fraternities-their rather ordinary level of bourgeois selfdefinition--that causes me to cast a wary eye on them today, and which ought to cause Harvard Black students to do likewise. Although some Black Greeks have adult branches involved in voter registration and in community uplift activity such as Big-Brother and Big-Sister mentoring, they are mainly still instruments of a consumerist/hedonist bourgeois world view...
...definitely a different team," Sailor said. "We went into that game thinking we could win, but we were a bit tentative. Since then we've had some big wins [including a victory over the tournament's top seed, Penn State]. We're hoping to show Harvard a different team...