Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has probably never seen ice-skating. He also does not know that the Jimmy Fund, the primary source of private contributions to the Institute, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Neither does he know that the Evening with Champions is among the largest contributors to the Fund. The annual skating exhibition has raised over three quarters of a million dollars over the last 18 years for the research and treatment of childhood cancer...
...U.S.S.R. is home to more than 1.5 million Jews, the largest Jewish population outside of the U.S. and Israel. The State Department estimates that 400,000 of them may want to leave the country, although only 30,000 have formally requested visa applications. Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union began in earnest in 1971. But after it peaked in 1979, Moscow drastically reduced the number of emigration permits the following year, claiming that many applicants -- even those who had worked at menial jobs -- possessed "state secrets." The cutback was a response to heated Western criticism of Moscow's December...
...largest display in the exhibition is the collection of block puzzles, which are far from ordinary barrel puzzles...
...first Reagan-Gorbachev summit, in Geneva in 1985, authorities accredited more than 3000 reporters, more than three times the size of the largest previous press corps in a city that is no stranger to international meetings...
...missile scored a direct hit on Sea Island, Kuwait's only deep-water oil-loading facility. The strike caused an explosion that could be heard 20 miles away in Kuwait City. The loading dock's destruction could temporarily cripple the emirate's ability to pump its oil aboard the largest supertankers. No ship was docked there when the Silkworm struck, so only five workers were hurt, none seriously...