Word: bigs
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...York City: "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country...
...surface, it looks like a big win for the telecom giants at the expense of the little guy: In what could be the final blow against the 1984 AT&T breakup, on Wednesday the FCC cleared the way for Bell Atlantic to become the first Baby Bell to offer long distance services. The move was decried by many of the consumer advocates who futilely fought against the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which paved the way for Baby Bells to provide long distance so long as they open their markets to competition. Earlier this year, when AT&T sought...
...year, $50 billion plan to make preschool universally accessible to four-year-olds and most three-year-olds. The proposal hit Bradley, the de facto liberal of the Democratic race, where it hurts by surpassing his $2.5 billion-per-year child-poverty program. "This answers Bradley's big criticism of Gore, that he's not bold enough," says TIME Washington correspondent John F. Dickerson. Bradley's proposal, which covers a wide range of services, including child and health care, has been criticized for its vagueness as to how exactly the money would be divided. Now Gore has trumped him both...
...primary debates promise to pit Bradley's $90 billion health care proposal against Gore's preschool plan. "Preschool is a fuzzier, more embraceable issue than health care for the poor," notes Dickerson. "America's just starting to realize that it trails the rest of the world in preschool; meanwhile, big health care plans are a tough sell, even among Democrats...
Their owners love them - sport utility vehicles and light trucks now make up almost half of the vehicles on American roads. They also inspire a lot of animosity: They're big, they terrify sedan drivers and they pollute more than cars. But that last complaint is about to change. On Tuesday, President Clinton and the Environmental Protection Agency are announcing tough new emissions standards that will apply not only to cars but also to the ubiquitous family of Explorers, Expeditions, Range Rovers and the like. The institution of these new standards, to be required in all 2004 models, will...