Word: bigs
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...They are] trying to make it more difficult for us to have parties in the dorms,” said Rowland. “I think that’s a really big inconvenience...
Other students were less concerned about the College’s decision. “To be honest, I don’t see what the big deal is,” said Maxim M. Kenyi ’12, who will be on campus with the men’s basketball team...
...death penalty used to be a big deal, important enough to figure prominently in the 1988 presidential debates. Four years later, in 1992, White House aspirant Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, rushed home from the campaign trail to preside over an execution - because that's how politicians proved their mettle in those days...
...Guardian (UK): "A reply to a question in Notes & Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighborhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch...Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats' urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in fact sell either tiger or lion urine. Many years ago the zoo sold elephant dung, but it no longer does...
...more vulnerable and the weaker the central government looks," says Christopher Boucek, a Middle East associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The government has such a limited capacity that they can only deal with one problem at a time," says Boucek. "They're not focused on the big picture issues that the United States cares about like counter-terrorism or security or al-Qaeda...