Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow got loose, tore away the plane's bomb-bay doors and plunged to earth, landing in the desert about ten miles from Albuquerque. The Mark 17, an estimated ten-megaton monster hundreds of times more powerful than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima, was one of the largest bombs in the U.S. arsenal. It did not set off a nuclear explosion, but it did leave a crater 24 ft. across...
...during a three- year period starting in 1988, some $11.4 billion in state funds invested in companies that do business in South Africa. Though as many as 119 universities, 19 other states and scores of cities have opted for or leaned toward divestiture, California's is by far the largest portfolio to be steered away from Pretoria...
...main challenge is to find some crack in our present theories," said Professor of Physics Roy I. Schwitters at the symposium, "The Ultimate Physical Theories: Progress and Prospects." Schwitters will head the world's largest particle accelerator soon to open at the Fendi National Laboratories outside of Chicago...
...Many individuals can be entrepreneurs, or advocates, or influential advisors. But only scholars blessed with security and freedom can master the largest subjects and pursue the truth wherever the quest may lead them," Bok said...
When Elliot L. Richardson '41 left a top job at New England's largest law firm for a career in public service, he got a 25 percent raise. If he made the same move nowadays, his salary would have been cut in half, he said...