Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan by American and Delta to merge their reservation systems. Combined, the two would command a 45% share of the market. Foes of the American-Delta deal say it would hurt competition by reducing the number of players. That step, they warn, would further widen the gap between the big eagles and the sitting ducks...
Social standing is always relative. To the hardscrabble peasants down in the Irish village of Ballybeg, the clan in the big house on the hill is the nobility. But at Ballybeg Hall the members of that gilded tribe are keenly aware of a wider world and their piddling place in it. They glamourize the past: a tatty cushion or tarnished candlestick becomes an heirloom by reason of a (probably fictitious) anecdotal link to some bygone celebrity. They embroider the dismal present. They deny the looming future of dissolution and dispersal...
...these feisty activists? They span the political spectrum from liberal to conservative, though most share a populist sympathy for the little guy and a suspicion of Big Government and Big Business. Like protesters of the 1960s, they have a flair for attention-grabbing gestures. But much of their power derives from a factor that distinguishes them from grass-roots activists of the past...
...heard." Siegel, 44, is a relatively well-credentialed member of the talk- show fraternity. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, he has a Ph.D. in speech communications, and began doing radio talk shows while a college professor in Massachusetts. In 1980 he moved to Miami's WNWS-AM, where his first big on-air campaign helped defeat a proposed rate increase by Southern Bell Telephone...
Bush is "firm in his belief that a new President shouldn't go off half- cocked," says a senior White House aide. "He has repeatedly said, 'I'm not going to make one of those big early-term mistakes like the Bay of Pigs.' " Yet faced with a political upheaval in the Soviet Union and its spillover in Europe, Bush seems almost recklessly timid, unwilling to respond with the imagination and articulation that the situation requires. "He is supposed to lead, but he is not even really trying yet," complains a British diplomat...