Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember that huge fight in '65," Pauly asked Balcony Section 26. "It lasted after the game was over. Talk about action. Everybody was fightin' in the street, and on the bus, and of course over at McFinney's. Finally broke it up, since it was stopping traffic...
...consumers that babies were too cumbersome to carry in wallets, Congress issued a new currency. The Baby Bill of The United States Treasury was issued as redeemable for one baby from the Fort Knox Nursery. The system made transactions much less complicated than the unwieldy act of trading huge numbers of babies back and forth for every deal--especially on Wall Street where the cost of shuttling thousands of babies back and forth every time the Dow Jones shifted was excessive...
...PROPOSED budget mirrors a society responding to conflicting demands. On the one hand, there is the still urgent need to bring the huge federal deficit under control. On the other hand, there is the problem of buoying up sinking U.S. competitiveness and reversing America's trade imbalance, difficulties which the Administration has addressed by requesting more money for scientific and technological research...
...stay in Japan alone," says Teruyoshi Yasufuku, senior managing director of Sanwa ^ Bank. As a result of exhortations like that, Japanese companies are not just exporting but are moving overseas in record numbers. For years, Japan invested only in its own miracle. But by the early 1980s, with huge balance-of-payments surpluses building up, businessmen began to look abroad for new opportunities. Last year alone Japanese direct investment overseas more than doubled, to $14.3 billion. A survey conducted by the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan shows 41% of all Japanese manufacturing companies have offices abroad...
...underground tunnel will form a giant ring 53 miles in circumference. Streams of subatomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light will be held on course by huge electromagnets. When one stream of high-speed protons smashes into another stream moving in the opposite direction, the force of the collision will create a host of short-lived particles not seen since the first moments after the Big Bang gave birth to the universe. Physicists are hoping that the appearance of exotic new particles -- higgs bosons, squarks and sleptons -- will open new vistas of inner space for scientists to study...