Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall the mountain known in Tibet as Chomolungma, or Goddess Mother of the World, and in the West as Everest permitted itself to be climbed by 33 people, withheld permission (in the form of benign weather) from a much larger number and killed nine climbers. Are those good odds or bad? A flatlander's question, an observer decides, after asking it of Stacy Allison and Peggy Luce; to mountaineers, the answer is a shrug. The odds are the odds. Allison, a contractor and house framer from Portland, Ore., and Luce, a bicycle messenger from Seattle, members...
...other Arabs, sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Later, Shevardnadze warned that Moscow would not resume diplomatic ties with Israel until Jerusalem accepted an international forum. Arens said restoring relations was not a precondition, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that normalization still must precede a larger Soviet role in Middle East diplomacy...
Although it may be a much larger step than many are willing to take, supporting gay rights means accepting the gay "lifestyle" as equally legitimate as, if slightly different than, the heterosexual "lifestyle." It is the difference between tolerating our existence versus tolerating our equality...
...part of a series of science lectures for non-specialists, Wilson told the crowd of about 200 that extinction is the most pressing environmental concern today, and predicted it would play a much larger foreign policy role in the next few years...
...survey conducted for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 77% of those polled said they oppose a mandatory service charge. One reason may be that the typical service charge is larger than the tip that most customers generally leave. When diners were asked how much they usually tip, the average came to 14%. Even so, some customers welcome the change. Says Michael Fawcett, manager of the Rattlesnake Club in Denver: "People really like it, because they don't have to figure out the check anymore...