Word: bigs
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...said Arnold Hartigan of Idaho's Boise Interagency Fire Center, the nation's wildfire command post. Idaho has had 18 major fires burning across 187,000 acres, while Oregon had nine on 54,000 acres. California had two major fires that burned 23,000 acres, and Utah had one big blaze on 1,700 acres...
...long-term help, corporate America and organized labor are increasingly looking to a third party: the Federal Government. Several business and labor leaders are pushing for some type of national health plan in which everyone would automatically be insured. While a big-picture solution is still hazy, the problem is now in sharp focus: a debilitating financial drain on American workers, companies and the U.S. economy as a whole...
Bush may have less to fear from critics than from his sly habit of promising big things but providing few dollars for the tasks. He has called himself "the education President" but budgeted little more for schools than did Reagan. His proposals to cut violent crime by doubling federal prison cells sounded commendable, but even top aides acknowledge that the construction program will have almost no effect on the problem. This bait-and-switch game is considered clever in Washington but not in many other places. Democrats are sure to seize on the rhetoric-reality gap in next year...
Willwerth became a lover of wildlife when he watched a Walt Disney film about South America's big jungle cats at the local movie house in his hometown of Grand Rapids. Since then he has visited the Tiger Tops resort, in Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park, and game preserves in East Africa as well as the penguin protectorates located on the South Australian coast. "This assignment brought out both the conservationist and the kid in me," he says...
...months Chicago's commodities traders had been nervously waiting for the big shoe to drop. The FBI announced last January that its agents had quietly penetrated the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange and found them to be full of snakes. Since then the bureau's investigation -- the most extensive ever conducted into any financial market -- has been proceeding, not so quietly, as more than a dozen traders have been pressed into cooperating with the Government. Last week, with FBI director William Sessions and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in Chicago for the occasion...