Word: greates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long last, here again is Washington's Union Station. Last week, after a thoughtfully conceived and meticulously executed $160 million restoration, the great national depot -- the bustling terminus for hundreds of thousands of troops sent off to two world wars, the Capitol Hill transit point for eleven Presidents and 11 zillion federal hangers-on -- reopened in something like its original form for the first time in more than a decade. It may be the most breathtaking public interior in the U.S. The vast, spiffed-up old station, packed with 140 new shops and restaurants and movie theaters (replacing, among other...
...Olympics, she came in ninth. In the 1986 European Championships, she came in fourth. In 1987, at the age of 26, West German heptathlete Birgit Dressel was dead, the victim of her body's reaction to the profusion of drugs she took in order to be a great competitor...
Growing inequality could even threaten those who now benefit from it by putting an end to the economic expansion. An extreme concentration of wealth and income during the 1920s was a leading cause of the Great Depression. Marriner Eccles, a Republican banker from Utah who became head of the Federal Reserve Board in the 1930s, explained, "While the national income rose to high levels, it was so distributed that the incomes of the majority were entirely inadequate, and business activity was sustained only by a rapid and unsound increase in the private debt structure." Today there are disturbing parallels. Some...
...conundrum of the workfare debate -- Should single mothers with small children have to work? -- has a yes-and-no answer: yes, but not unless reliable day care is provided. Massachusetts' ET program and the Moynihan bill place great emphasis on day care. But this must be accompanied by a commitment on the part of the states and the private sector to help finance it. Single mothers receiving benefits could work in day-care centers, constituting an immediately available employment pool...
...example, water shortages may be particularly serious in the agricultural areas of the Great Plains if the dry weather continues, as many climatologists suspect. Traditionally dry--the whole area was once known as the Great American Desert--it has become enormously productive through irrigation and crop improvement. But a good deal of the water bodies there are now polluted by fertilizer nitrates and pesticides. Should the drop in the water table continue, safe drinking water may become increasingly scarce...