Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central daylight time), as the DC-10 cruised at 33,000 ft. above the tiny town of Alta, Iowa (pop. 1,720), it was jolted. Passengers heard an explosion at the plane's rear, then felt the huge craft shake and pitch downward. In Row 11 of the economy section in front of the wings, Lori Michaelson was traveling with her husband and three children. "I could see the stewardesses looked kind of panicky," she recalled later. That was understandable. One of them had been knocked to the floor...
...praised proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged 275 telephone calls from lawmakers and Washington lobbyists...
People respond to incentives. Reward them for producing the most possible shoes, and they will produce a huge number of identical small shoes -- identical, because it's easier; small, because they can get more shoes out of a given supply of leather. The only way to produce exactly the shoes people want, or close to it, is to place the order through the free market...
...judge also rejected Paramount's contention that Time executives were using the editorial-independence argument simply to entrench their positions. Wrote Allen: "There may be at work here a force more subtle than a desire to maintain a title or office. Many people commit a huge portion of their lives to a single large-scale business organization. They derive their identity in part from the organization and feel that they contribute to the identity of the firm. The mission of the firm is not seen by those involved with it as wholly economic, nor the continued existence of its distinctive...
...investigative journalists seemed to be listening. Part of the reason was that news organizations had tired of HUD after reporting the massive Reagan budget cutbacks at the agency in the early 1980s; once most of the money was gone, so were the reporters. Only a few regularly covered the huge bureaucracy...