Word: major
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...Guns are becoming a major issue...
BILL BRADLEY has taken the toughest position on guns of any major candidate in recent history. He wants a license-registration system for handguns...
...greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humans are forcing drastic climate changes. Yet Congress seems determinedly indifferent. As the lawmakers prepare for their summer adjournment, legislative efforts to slow that warming by reducing greenhouse emissions have all but ground to a halt. Withering too, like so many cornstalks, are other major pro-environmental bills: increased funding for research on energy sources other than fossil fuels; incentives to encourage industries to cut emissions; efforts to clean up power plants; and measures to raise fuel-efficiency standards for gas-slurping SUVs, vans and light trucks. Just about the only measure likely to pass...
...choose to carry the news of Neelan's death, and when they did, it was well hidden. Last week, the Washington Post ran the story on page A-24 in its World in Brief section, devoting exactly 91 words to it. A quick database search for his name in major newspapers over the past month turned up only 16 items--six of which were articles by The Hindu and one of which was a correction...
...country?s top 50 cities all pass the "voice" test, but the scramble to expand is likely to be most feverish in major sports markets like New York, L.A. and Chicago ?- sports is a particularly cost-effective way to fill airtime. Or conglomerates with big movie libraries may decide that a mix of film and reruns may be the way to go. But who gets bought? One guy with plenty of prime real estate is Lowell Paxson, whose fledgling family-based Pax network has stations in 43 of the top 50 markets but isn?t now passing bottom-line muster...