Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Congress was moving closer to slapping sanctions on Toshiba, the Japanese electronics giant, because it illegally sold the Soviets high-tech equipment used to make submarine propellers. A congressional committee working on a huge trade bill reportedly agreed to ban for three years the importation of machine tools and other products made by Toshiba Machine, the subsidiary that made the illicit sale. Though Toshiba's familiar consumer products would still be available, the provision would bar U.S. Government agencies from buying any Toshiba product for as long as three years. Still, the White House might veto a trade bill...
...enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection of grades and cuts of pork, which has been rationed in such huge cities as Beijing and Shanghai...
...rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province and the laboratory for economic reform, some have prospered. But not many. The eleven western provinces and territories, including the huge Tibetan and Xinjiang autonomous regions, with 300 million of China's 1 billion people, produced only 17% of the 1987 GNP of $293 billion. The ten provinces and municipalities in the east, with 360 million people, account for a remarkable...
Pryor's bill runs counter to congressional efforts in recent years to strengthen tax collection. Faced with a huge federal deficit, Congress since 1981 has passed five laws that have increased penalties for tax evasion and given new enforcement powers to the IRS. Pryor contends that the tax collectors now have too much of an advantage. "It's time to give taxpayers some rights to even the playing field," he declares. Some form of his bill is expected to pass the Senate, but comparable legislation in the House has not yet garnered the support it needs from Illinois Democrat...
...most familiar and plebeian, take-out means pizza, chicken or burgers from fast-food chains, or a Chinese or Mexican meal -- or, of course, frozen or vacuum-bagged fodder from the supermarket. But these days there is a huge variety of fresh take-out food for the weary shopper. Many supermarkets offer wide menus that include not only kaleidoscopic salad bars but also many tony dishes just cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping...