Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge trading volume for the day was exceeded only by the 600 million-share sessions of October 19 and 20, 1987, and the 450 million shares traded October...
Wang built up huge inventories of ivory in Singapore in anticipation of the CITES registration. On Oct. 31, 1986 -- the last day that importation of ivory without CITES papers was allowed -- more than ten tons of Wang's ivory arrived on a Boeing 707 from Burundi. When Chris Huxley, then a CITES official, examined some of the more than 50 tons of tusks Wang owned in Singapore, he found evidence that suggested some of the elephants had not died of natural causes: "A few had light-caliber bullet damage. Some still had considerable bone attached and had obviously been removed...
...Manhattan and two hotel-casinos in Atlantic City. Last May he paid floundering Eastern Airlines $365 million for its East Coast shuttle service, renamed it the Trump Shuttle, and now controls at least 40% of the market, in contrast to 26% when he took over. Trump has made huge killings by buying stakes in companies and leading other investors to believe he had an interest in a buyout, only to sell out after the stock price rose. Among his targets have been Golden Nugget, Pillsbury and Federated Department Stores. But because he has made an outright offer this time, analysts...
...Larry McMurtry has managed to do both, and at the same time. His highly praised fiction includes several titles -- The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment -- that are probably more familiar to filmgoers than to readers. And Lonesome Dove, for which he was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, won huge ratings last winter as a TV mini-series...
Despite his success with the athletic elite, Braden is more concerned about the masses. "People have been pushed out of sports," he says. "What we've done in this society is to build huge stadiums to let 22 people play on the grass." Most Americans, he feels, participate largely by watching sports on television. "People think that's all that's left for them," he complains. Statistics seem to bear him out. The number of active tennis players, for example, has declined from around 32 million in the late 1970s to some 20 million today...