Word: largest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British troops were coming to seize the colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities to the tiniest hamlets, and spawn thousands of speeches, parades, pageants, school plays, fairs, exhibitions, TV shows, postage stamps, buttons, T shirts and Jefferson knows what else before the party officially ends...
Jacobsen has testified that he gave Connally the $10,000 in two $5,000 installments in 1971 on behalf of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative and a big contributor to Nixon's 1972 campaign. When it appeared that federal investigators were about to discover the gift, Jacobsen said, the pair agreed to formulate a false story that the money had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. On Oct. 29, 1973, said Jacobsen, Connally gave him $10,000 back, which Jacobsen placed in the safe-deposit...
Last month Georgetown University signed what is probably the largest deal so far with Iran-an $11.5 million, five-year agreement to help Ferdowsi University in the holy city of Mashhad create, among other things, schools of engineering, agriculture and economics. In other recently signed contracts with U.S. colleges, Iran awarded...
...slogans about taxation without representation, it learns of an Internal Revenue Service training school that plied undercover agents with liquor and women, 'objects' it evidently regarded as equally dangerous. As the country reads about colonial resentment at British monopolies, 70,000 unemployed workers from General Motors, one of the largest of its monopolies, wait for their unemployment checks to stop coming. And as President Ford praises the embattled Concord farmers who fired the shot heard round the world, similarly embattled farmers of Indochina--who, like their Concord predecessors, fight the world's strongest power as well as local people loyal...
Claiming that the bank is the largest United States investor in Argentina, the group chanted "The First National's investments support political murder." Ruth Robinson, a spokeswoman for the group, said over 100 political murders have been covered up by Argentina's military dictatorship in the last three months...