Word: size
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city the size of Cambridge, electionofficials need as long as a week to count the20,000 to 30,000 ballots. In New York--70 timesthe size of Cambridge--an at-large PR electioncould easily be a logistical nightmare...
...doing so, he implied that events like the 1956 Hungarian crackdown and the 1968 Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part motivated by a desire to drive a stake through America's SDI missile-defense program...
WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New Braunfels, Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as yodelers, dancers and polka players with down-home names like Oma and the Oompahs. Nov. 3 through...
According to Tim Zagat, whose pocket-size books rate restaurants in 14 American cities, game has taken off this season partly because of "an overall interest in finer foods." Joseph Baum, co-owner of New York City's Rainbow Room and Aurora restaurants, agrees. "Flavor is in again, and game is full of flavor," he says. "It's evocative of the past, of tradition. It's romantic." This season Aurora has set up a special game menu for its dinner guests. Last week's offerings included medallions of venison with dried fruit, saddle of hare with black- and white-peppercorn...
...while there was massed clucking over the size of Reagan's fee and Ford's continued service on corporate boards, the Communist world was declaring the profit motive holy writ. Not let a retired President participate in capitalism and make a noble buck? That would be a sort of excommunication from America...