Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their press was a huge factor because it tookaway 15 seconds of our offense," Miller said. "Ittook us so long to get up the court, we didn'tmake them pay for it. It was doing exactly whatthey wanted...
...Laela is a huge loss," senior center Rose Janowski said following the Brown game. "There wasn't as much confidence on the floor, there wasn't as much flow, and I think missing Laela was a part of that. She is a motivating force for other people. We missed...
...Laela was doing a great job not only as a scorer but also as a rebounder and defender," Delaney-Smith said. "She's a veteran. To lose a player like Laela, who has an enormous amount of confidence, has a huge effect besides the points. She adds something else to this team. It's going to make things tougher, but we're still in the race; we're still in the hunt...
Does anyone really think that members of Congress, who routinely pillage billions of tax dollars for post offices and bridges in their own districts, will shy away from influencing the direction of this huge investment windfall? And even if they are not so crass as to pick a shipbuilding company in their district, they will be issuing every conceivable ideological litmus test for these investments...
...battered part of the plan was the stock-market idea. Corporations hated it. Members of Congress in both parties hated it. And, most important, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan--the patron saint of our prosperity--hated it. "I do not believe that it is politically feasible to insulate such huge funds from government direction," he said. That's Greenspanese for a simple concern: by investing some $700 billion in Social Security funds, the government-cum-shareholder would inject politics into the free market and unduly influence corporate decision-making. Would the government, for example, bring an antitrust or discrimination suit...