Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when higher education is big business, when "prestigious" diplomas mean as much as they ever have, and financial scandals seemingly touch almost all the nation's most respected institutions, it does not seem too much to press harder for open information from the schools themselves. If they do not owe it to Justice Department investigators, they owe it to their own pursuers of the truth...
...FANS of big, thick black headlines have had a lot to be happy about in the last week or so. First, the stock market threatened to crash, and then the earth in California quaked. That's the most disaster that American newspapers have had to play with since the Challenger explosion. And both of last week's stories included double coverage potential: the business and sports sections, respectively, got to echo the front page...
...experiences of those directly involved in the two shakeups were doubtless more wrenching--but the rest of us experienced something too in the last week. We were all there, fascinated, hoping to live through something really big...
...REALLY big: numbers played an integral role in both New York and San Francisco. Perhaps academics who complain of America's mathematical illiteracy will be encouraged. A disaster is not worth getting excited about, it seems, until a number has been attached...
...Rebels. Their first big mistake was trying to persuade Noriega to retire peacefully instead of killing him or handing him over to the U.S. Their second was counting on Major Francisco Olechea, commander of the elite Battalion 2000, to be neutral; instead, he brought his troops to Noriega's rescue. The widow of the slain coup leader Major Moises Giroldi called Olechea a turncoat. Some U.S. officials, however, suspect that Olechea switched sides because he did not get timely assurances that Giroldi and his troops had succeeded in capturing Noriega. He waited for more than two hours after he knew...