Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton had proposed the debate on something of a dare, leaving Gore only four days to prepare for the face-off. The President's aides immediately professed anxiety about the Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over a chicken...
...considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion...
Professors said the imminent approval of the treaty was a giant political step forward...
Urban poverty alone will require a giant commitment of money if it is to be stopped from turning all our cities into violent slums. Public resources will have to be mobilized against the spread of AIDS and other communicable diseases. Insuring adequate medical care for the entire population will require a lot of money...
...American jobs in the next two years. That sounds impressive, but it is not much more than the 150,000 new jobs the U.S. domestic economy is creating every month, even at the present sluggish rate of employment growth. On the other side, Perot keeps talking about a "giant sucking sound" of factories, money and jobs being vacuumed into Mexico from the U.S. He is almost the only one who can hear it. Some treaty opponents have been kicking around a figure of 500,000 jobs that might be lost, but NAFTA proponents consider that projection grossly exaggerated...