Word: largest
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...think that you have to recognize that the largest segment of education in Massachusetts is the independent sector. They've been doing a good job of it for 350 years, and they'll continue to," said James A. True, AICUM vice president for governmental relations...
Meanwhile, 500 former employees of P&L Sportswear--one of Massachusetts' largest textile plants prior to its abrupt closing last December--still remain without jobs or assistance from the state. Four months after the sudden shutdown which left the workers stranded, their plight has yet to come to the notice of the city, the state, or local media--in contrast to the prompt attention given to both the recent Colonial plant and Quincy Shipyard closings...
...House follows the College's ratio of public to prep school graduates. While it is true that there are some snobby and some very rich students here, there are no more than in any other house. Eliot House has a more diverse student population than perceived--we have the largest Puerto Rican student population on campus...
...plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once one of the largest airlines in the free world. The airline was known by half a dozen different names, sometimes just as the "Shy Airline," and it flew where few tourists wanted to go. Passengers were often obliged to exit by parachute...
...swiftly, fearing that the disaster could badly damage a wine industry that accounted for $953 million in exports last year. Italian Agriculture Minister Filippo Maria Pandolfi announced a new regulation that requires all wine marked for export to carry a government certificate of purity. Francesco Artale, director of the largest association of Italian winegrowers, tried to reassure customers in the U.S., which is Italy's biggest export market. Said he: "I can categorically exclude the possibility that any Italian wine sold in the United States has been adulterated...