Word: bigs
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...legendary names and places pepper the maps of South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana, three Old West states currently celebrating 100 years of statehood. Trails are named the Lewis and Clark, the Bozeman, the Cheyenne- Deadwood; names like Custer, Big Horn and Virginia City beckon the eye. Undaunted by the midsummer heat, the states have mounted an extravagant array of rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests that will culminate in November. Enthusiastic tourism officials predict that the number of out-of- state license plates on the roads will top last year's by as much as 10%. Roadside...
...subcommittee will be watching closely to see how well the new IRS commissioner, Fred Goldberg Jr., who stepped in after the abrupt resignation * of Lawrence Gibbs last March, will follow up on the allegations. "I think all of us understand that we have a big challenge ahead of us," testified Goldberg near the conclusion of the hearings. Last week's uncomfortable spotlight may have supplied the IRS with some much needed motivation. Said Edward Habecker, a former IRS official, in testimony at the hearings: "What is lacking today within the IRS is not the tools, but the desire to maintain...
...Thatcherism -- Robyn because of the cuts in public spending that have ravaged her university's budget; Vic because of Rummidge's desperate rust-belt competition, which causes his firm to be taken over and him to get the sack; even Robyn's lover Charles because of the post-Big Bang financial speculations that lure him from academe and leave him adrift. This theme weighs a bit heavily on the book and keeps it from having quite the buoyancy and sparkle of Lodge's earlier campus novels, Small World and Changing Places. However, a pair of holdovers from those novels...
...deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...
Quick flip-through, by male in jokey mood: Woman sociologist gets big grant, does ten years of research, writes book proving that men don't do housework. Complains...