Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Crimson divers were showing that they should be capable of filling a huge gap on the Harvard squad, junior Greg Tull proved last night that he is a more than adequate replacement for freestylist Keith Kaplan, who graduated last spring. Tull continued the Crimson's success in freestyle, barely edging out a tight field in both the 50- and 100-yd. events...
...Huge crowds of workers also poured into the streets of Bratislava, the east Slovak industrial center of Kosice, the mining center of Ostrava on the polish border, and Usti nad Labem, the heart of industrial north Bohemia...
...population now owns over half the wealth in this country and the richest 10 percent owns over 80 percent of the wealth (excluding home ownership). The gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. Further, with the recent "merger mania" and the incredible growth of huge, multinational corporations, a handful of corporate executives now exercise unprecedented power over the economic life of the nation...
What does it mean to the concept of honest political "debate" when, in the 1980's both parties supported huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, when both parties supported major cutbacks in funding for education, housing, environmental proection and desperately-needed social services, when both parties supported major increases in military spending and the 8-year-old C.I.A.-Contra was against Nicaragua...
Nothing is more objective than the new class of European and Japanese investors. What the Japanese are doing has very little relation to collecting as it was once understood. They are, quite simply, investment-buying on a huge scale, with limitless quantities of cheap credit: one zaibatsu offers open- ended loans of any size at 7% (3.5 points below the U.S. prime rate) to Japanese who want to buy Western...