Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah, but trading for the Fed is a little different. You've got all the cards when you trade for the Fed. But I easily could have gone to law school. My indecision was resolved for me by getting a larger fellowship at what is now the Kennedy School ((of Government at Harvard)). And I often thought that if I'd gone to law school, I would have been representing a bunch of banks before the Federal Reserve Board in recent years instead of the opposite...
...example, receives $411,099 to hire aides as well as a sum ranging from $105,000 to $360,000 to rent office space in his district. A minimum of $67,000 is provided for office, telephones and travel back and forth between Washington and home base. Senators receive larger allocations in these categories. In addition, members of both houses have the privilege of sending unlimited free "franked" mail to their constituents (at a total cost of $113 million in 1988) and the use of recording studios located in the Capitol to prepare spots for broadcast to the folks back home...
...multiple explosion, though, it could be a "quite different physical situation," Kirshner says. If the explosions happen "together in space and time, the net effect could be larger," he says...
...West distrust posed the largest hurdle to an effective ban. But in 1987, two years after Congress voted to end an 18-year moratorium on the American manufacture of chemical weapons, the Soviet Union acceded to U.S. demands for on-site "challenge inspections" to enforce a treaty. Today the larger obstacle is posed by Third World nations that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British weapons expert...
...willing to yield portions of the territory the Israeli army had seized in the West Bank of the Jordan River, . where many Palestinian Arabs live, in exchange for recognition and security. During that period, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization regarded Israel itself as an integral part of the larger territory of "occupied" Palestine that they were sworn to "liberate...