Word: major
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...agreement removes the last major block to full economic relations between the United States and China...
While rock gained new levels of popularity and achievement throughout the 60s, the national jazz scene was rapidly drying up. The audience dwindled, the clubs closed. The effect on the New York musicians was devastating; many of the major figures who didn't die either went into seclusion or left for the greener pastures of Europe and Las Vegas. But the less competitive Chicago avant-garde community was on the threshold of an artistic breakthrough, and in the face of public indifference Chicago musicians turned to one another for support through the AACM...
...Jewish standards, Lapide, 56, a former chairman of the applied linguistics department at Israel's Bar-Han University, is not as heretical a Jew as he seems. He flatly denies that Jesus, resurrected or not, was either the Messiah of Israel or the divine Son of God, the major points of faith over which Jews and Christians fell into disagreement and outright hostility in the first centuries A.D. (Jews refer to these as centuries C.E., for Common Era). "I do accept the fact that he is the Saviour of the Gentile church. I do not think that his being...
...former cultural correspondent for TIME in London, Judson spent nearly a decade immersing himself in molecular biology's opaque literature, learning its special language and nuances and, above all, interviewing its major figures. As he describes his visits with scientists in the lab, listening to their rambling explanations and even lunching with them at their homes, he seems to record every murmur and move, even the labels of the wines on their tables...
...also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing of 5 per cent--the highest in decades--the electorate went decisively for Tory policies, scorning the middle-ground consensus on which both major parties had traditionally operated, and which had been considered indispensable both in winning elections and governing Britain...