Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as you are always firm in safeguarding your liberty and in defending it, then you do very tough negotiations, watching at each stage that everything you do is verifiable. You don't take anything on trust. The Soviet Union is a closed society and it's much bigger than the United States, so it would be much easier for them to conceal things...
Company spokesmen said the new, bigger firm will be better able to avoid a takeover. Said Moet-Hennessy Chairman Alain Chevalier, who will head it: "It was like one of those love affairs that lead quickly to the altar." And are toasted only by the finest of champagnes...
...Walter Barbknecht, seeing that a visitor's head was spinning, offered a tour of town. "Orville's real proud of this sidewalk," the tour began, then abruptly turned conspiratorially candid. "The restaurant inspector is giving us a bad time. They want us to make the doors to the restrooms bigger, for the handicapped. And shields over the lights. Tiddly things. They don't want fluorescent bulbs to break over the food. We did our own plumbing and wiring, just volunteers. We have a good plumber, but he doesn't have a license, so they're hacking on that. If this...
...issue, then is not how much influence higher education has, but rather how it uses it. Harvard and higher education thus must do more than seek bigger checks--passively receiving from society without actively returning the investment...
...your story "Fight for Survival" ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, May 4)), there is a battle under way between commercial banks and investment banks. But there is a bigger financial fight raging, with far more profound consequences for the American consumer and the future of our financial system. At issue is whether corporate giants like General Motors, Sears and Honda should be allowed to own non-bank banks, which would destroy the historic separation between banking and commerce in this country. The Reagan Administration supports the breaking down of these walls. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, among others, does not. The matter...