Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most compelling objection raised by critics of state lotteries is their regressive nature. Poor people spend a larger percentage of their income on lotteries, partly in the hope of striking it rich and climbing out of their desperate situations...
...National Aerospace Plane, or "Orient Express." Smaller than the shuttle, it would take off like an airplane from a runway, soar into space to deliver its human cargo, then return and land. And NASA has plans to convert the present shuttle into a cargo-only model, with a larger payload than the manned version. Together, these launchers would give NASA much needed flexibility...
...Guskin either had no larger vision of the play or could not express it. The performances clash in tone and degenerate into monologues and star turns, all but devoid of emotional connection save in the first tender flirtation between Pfeiffer and the disguised Mastrantonio. By far the worst offender is Goldblum, who seemingly has no clue about his character. In a blatant pitch for cheap laughs, he relies on grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich...
...prestigious Keizaikai study group for senior executives that ordinarily devotes its sessions to business and politics. Diet member Kosugi points out that meetings of his environmental subcommittee, which used to draw five or six legislators to a small room, now draw 40 or more, forcing a move to larger quarters...
...clear that the industry does not have the equipment, expertise or technology to mount an effective response ((to a spill)) within a critically short period of time." As the U.S. imports a growing share of the oil it consumes, bringing it in on tankers, spills will inevitably become a larger environmental threat...