Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years, 20,000 buildings went up, all bigger and stronger than the 28,000 that had burned. San Francisco's assessed evaluation was half again as much as it had been. In 1915 the city sponsored the spectacular Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In only nine years, San Francisco had bounced all the way back...
...that hit San Francisco last week was not the long-feared Big One. While it packed a punch, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale,* the 1906 earthquake was 25 times as strong, at 8.3. Warns Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey: "The question is not whether a bigger earthquake is coming. The question is when...
Question One: Who created a bigger stir when he went to Japan...
...midst of this superabundance, when the image bank is bulging with deposits, photojournalism is poised at a moment that holds triumphs and complex dilemmas. During the 1980s, magazines began using more pictures and giving them bigger space. It may be that too many were celebrity portraits and glamour shots, but the galvanizing news image and the serious photo-essay were never squashed by the sparkle and hype that squeezed them. Magazines in the U.S. and abroad sheltered indispensable projects like Sebastiao Salgado's global survey of work, Alon Reininger's portrait of the age of AIDS and the essays...
...case of the stock market, such a numerical need is perfectly logical. The number was the story: down 190.58 points. The way in which numbers are expected to grow into bigger numbers, however, is not so straightforward. Exciting numbers--200, 300, 400, 500--flitted through American minds all weekend. In the end, a combination of relief and disappointment greeted Monday's actual closing figure: back up 88.12 points...