Word: major
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...move stands to do more to burnish the public relations image of Carter's anti-inflation commandos-and Sears-than to contain overall U.S. prices. First, inflation in general retailing has been relatively modest, averaging well under 5% over the past five years. Second, Sears' major competitors, including J.C. Penney, K mart and Montgomery Ward, do not intend to cut prices...
...time that he sold the stamps to the grocer and the time the customers cashed them in gave Carlson the money needed to buy the premium gifts and print stamps. Long before the market in trading stamps slumped in the late 1960s, Carlson began to diversify. His first major move came in 1961, when he bought the venerable Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, using the convenient float. In subsequent acquisitions, he had generous lines of credit from many banks...
This deeply troubles John Hanley, a soap supersalesman who rode the Tide to the top at Procter & Gamble and in 1972 floated over to become chief executive of one of its major chemical suppliers, Monsanto Co. Now Hanley, 57, is hard-selling a provocative idea: that technology could leap ahead if two basic but often distant institutions would join forces. Those two are U.S. universities and U.S. corporations...
...only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know, and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human...
...aspiring, he said, "to bring Broadway to America via the television set." For twelve years at NBC and three at CBS, he pursued this goal, creating small-screen renditions of works by Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Dostoevsky and introducing original dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and the half a dozen other major playwrights Coe discovered. When he died, Coe was working on a two-hour TV version of The Miracle Worker, one of his biggest Broadway hits...