Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Big Red (3-6-0 overall, 1-5-0 Ivy), defending league co-champions, bottled up Garrett most of the three quarters. But with the score tied at 7 late in the third quarter, Garrett took a handoff from quarterback Joel Sharp, burst through a hole and went 55 yards for his longest scoring run of the season and a 14-7 lead...
...Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. Only two black Congressmen and a handful of the nation's other 7,000 black elected officials serve constituencies in which blacks are not a majority. Even David Dinkins' triumph in New York City was a reminder of the constraints on black political power; most big-city mayors operate in a no-win environment, where their capacity to be blamed for insoluble urban problems far exceeds their powers and resources...
...joint project of the U.S. Commerce Department and Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the study examined the comparative prices of 122 products ranging from catsup to cameras. The results: 84 items were priced higher in Japan's capital than in the Big Apple. The more dramatic examples included European spark plugs ($7.60 in Tokyo, $1.70 in New York), U.S.-made electric shavers ($90.15 vs. $44.95) and Australian bed linen ($63.40 vs. $20). The Bush Administration is likely to cite the survey as evidence that Japanese trade barriers hinder competition that would lead to lower prices in that...
...veteran Borscht Belt comic. Put him in a sitcom produced by the same people who created hits for Bill Cosby and Roseanne Barr. Give it the surefire time period following No. 1-rated Roseanne. Almost every TV prognosticator in the business picked Chicken Soup as the season's big hit. But Mason had a troubled autumn. He got bad reviews, both for his acting and for making racially inflammatory remarks during the New York City mayoral race. More dismaying to ABC, Chicken Soup -- though the highest-rated of any new show this fall -- regularly lost nearly one-third...
China has as big a stake as we have in restoring a cooperative Sino-American relationship...