Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest on campus crowd ever to see a UCLA soccer, match is expected when the Cantabs will attempt to master an-upset of the nation's second-seeded Bruin squad that would set up the Crimson's first Final Four trip since...
...example, the college boasts the foremost women's studies resource in the country--the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, as well as the Bunting Institute, one of the nation's four largest post-doctoral programs...
International Affairs. The document endorses free trade and urges increased foreign aid. It notes that the U.S. is the largest single donor of economic assistance, but points out that "our nation lags behind most other industrial nations in the relative amount of aid we provide to the Third World." The letter specifically deplores a recent decline in U.S. support for the World Bank's interest-free loan program...
...savvy vacationers along the East Coast, the planes with the seagull symbol on their tails were the fastest way to the beach. Provincetown-Boston Airline has become the nation's largest commuter carrier by flying short hops from big cities to resort areas, including such popular runs as Miami to Key West and New York City to Martha's Vineyard. While a few travelers may have had jitters about some of the older planes in PBA's fleet, the airline has enjoyed stunning growth. In the first nine months of this year, the company posted profits...
...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...