Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city near the Turkish border, stacks of red, black or unfinished wood coffins were piled on street corners...
...even though the firm's final bid of about $25 billion in cash and securities, or $109 a share, was a bit less than the $25.4 billion, or $112 a share, that Johnson and his handful of top RJR managers had offered as their last stab. (The largest previous deal was Chevron's $13.3 billion takeover of Gulf in 1984.) "It was destined to happen this way," said a source close to the bidding. "The board could not appear to favor management in a buyout." Members of the losing side felt that the board had in fact discriminated against them...
REAL estate, it's all about real estate. Harvard may be Cambridge's largest landowner, but it seems that no one associated with the school can ever get enough space. Undergraduates are clamoring for a student center; the faculty is begging for more offices; Harvard Real Estate wants to build a hotel on the Gulf Station lot; and the final clubs, which own some of the most valuable property in the Square, selfishly keep it from students who need it, sharing it only with their few male members...
Second, the editorial states: "And Asian Americans admitted to Harvard in 1982 and 1983 had SAT scores 50 to 100 points higher than their white counterparts." As pointed out in the January statement, the largest difference for any year was 50 points, and the typical difference in a given year in 40 points for the verbal and mathematics SATs combined. The Crimson is not alone in its error. One recent article published in a journal, The Public Interest, mistakenly reported a 112-point difference in the combined SAT verbal and mathematics scores for admitted Asian American and white students...
...current Council session, Walsh has spent much of his time arguing that the city's largest developer-Harvard-is getting too much of a free ride...