Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson found its lineup to be bigger at almost all positions against the two Texas teams. The difficulty came in keeping up with the athleticism of its opponents, especially in the frontcourt...
...household name in 1989 with the release of Batman; before that, he was relatively well-known as the director of the 1988 hit Beetlejuice and 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Since Batman, Burton has enjoyed the special type of freedom that comes with success, working with bigger budgets and studios willing to take a risk on his ideas. But despite being embraced by Hollywood, Burton has managed to retain his distinctive cinematic flavor as well to provide entertaining and memorable films...
...took me a lot longer than I feel it should have to get acclimated to football and being out here. I think [Rich and I] were both pretty much equal when we came in. I was ahead of him on the depth chart when we got here. I was bigger and had a stronger arm. He was so confident and believed in himself so much that he played so much better than me. I respect that he played that way and had that much belief in himself--I kind of wish I had been more like that...
...upstage a CEO keynote that includes a live appearance by George Lucas (playing hookey from the script for the next Star Wars movie), an extended solo by guitar demigod Steve Vai, and the public debut of both the Playstation2 and a digital music player barely bigger than a stick of gum? Apparently it's not that hard - if you have an operating system named after...
...seems determined to do to tabloids what Disney did to New York City's Times Square--i.e., clean things up for family consumption. Since tabloid-type stories now crop up so frequently in mainstream print and on TV, Pecker wants the real tabloids to get more respect--and a bigger share of the action. "Right now only 8% of our revenue is advertising," he says. "I think there's an opportunity to get it up to 15% to 20%." To lure upscale advertisers, Pecker has swallowed a weekly loss of $100,000 by banning those blurbs hawking psychic healers, herbal...