Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic Treaty Oak -- alleged site of a treaty signing by Native Americans and Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin -- has been receiving the kind of diligent attention usually given a gravely ill head of state. A team of eleven has meticulously removed the contaminated soil from around its huge root network, and last week billionaire H. Ross Perot flew in 18 technical specialists from around the nation to assist in a bedside diagnosis...
...there is one opinion on which both gambling experts and ordinary bettors are in unanimous agreement, it is that state-sponsored gambling has been the driving force behind the huge increases in all types of wagering, legal and illegal. Legislators who approve lotteries, legal horse-betting parlors or riverboat gambling are spreading the message that wagering is respectable. "Gambling has been part of every known society," says Dr. Eric Plaut, vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly...
...fooled by the huge number of courses listed in the History section of Harvard's course catalogue. The department is famous for "bracketing" almost all of its courses every year--indicating that the course will be offered not this year, but next year. The department's affiliates used to wear T-shirts which read [History...
...choice forces lay claim to a huge silent majority of America's public. Unfortunately, that silence in successive presidential elections has stacked the Supreme Court so that the overturning of Roe v. Wade is virtually assured...
...Giant spots, bright flares and huge eruptions are blemishing the face of the sun, delighting scientists and sparking spectacular auroral displays in the night skies. Astronomers are uncovering the secrets of the mysterious star that provides the earth with energy and sustains life itself. See SCIENCE...