Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around dinner time the students sent out for pizza--"We all contributed, but Neustadt contributed the largest chunk," Rubin recalls...
...just $100,000, less than the price of an average single-family house, Investor Lloyd Lubensky managed to buy a 34.2% controlling interest in the seventh largest U.S. steel company, Wheeling-Pittsburgh, according to papers filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 1.7 million shares he acquired had a market value of $13.5 million on the day he paid the $100,000 for them, Dec. 31. Lubensky bought the stock for the lower price from a friend, Wheeling Chairman Allen Paulson, who resigned a week later. Paulson apparently intends to use the virtual giveaway as an income...
Some efforts are being made to get children to shape up and eat right. The largest impact should come this fall; the federal school lunch program, which feeds 24 million students each day, is revising menus to reduce fat, sugar and salt. On local levels, some undertakings are informal. For example, the Sports Training Institute in New York City is setting up exercise pep talks by such legendary athletes as John Havlicek and Arthur Ashe. Other attempts are more structured. Dayton is experimenting with Gamefield Fitness Systems at 45 of the city's schools. Designed by the National Fitness Campaign...
...cycle, what has been called the "chump change" dilemma: many able-bodied poor people see no profit in working for low wages when they can often earn more in welfare or hustling on the street. The problem is most severe among inner-city black youths, who make up the largest segment of the nation's unemployed. Many liberals and labor leaders argue that upping the minimum wage will encourage more people to seek employment and get off the welfare rolls...
That offensive seemed at hand two weeks ago, when an estimated 35,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards swarmed across the line dividing Iranian and Iraqi troops, some 20 miles to the east of Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Shouting "Allah akbar!" (God is great), they stormed over the barbed wire that crowned the embankments along a flooded artificial barrier called Fish Lake, inflicting heavy casualties on the dug-in Iraqi troops...