Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard,] you get to work with a wonderfulvery large group of people," Spence said. "The jobat Stanford is rather similar in terms of jobdescription, but it is true that the faculty isabout one-tenth the size. It probably is moremanageable...
...March 10 rally was surprising for its size, spirit and the message emblazoned on some banners: LA ESTADIDAD ES PARA LOS POBRES. Statehood for the poor? In Puerto Rico's triangulated politics, the statehood cause had been - monopolized by the upper class. A small faction of nationalists and leftists fought, occasionally with guns, for total independence. The rest of the population appeared content with commonwealth status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich...
...basis. Bringing the East German social and economic infrastructure up to Western standards over the next several years will require the investment of hundreds of billions of dollars. At the same time, the combined state should be able to find considerable savings by reducing the size of the armed forces, a step Bonn has already said it plans to take...
...which was shocked to lose its longtime baseball coverage, struck back by winning the rights to N.B.A. basketball, formerly held by CBS. The cost: $600 million, more than triple the size of the last contract. Colossal amounts were also shelled out for the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics (CBS), the 1992 Summer Games (NBC) and NCAA basketball...
Greyhound is as much a part of rural economic life as the local filling station or coffee shop. Businesses use buses to ship packages and other small freight that truckers will not handle. "Flower boxes aren't the right size for UPS," frets Main Street florist Reta Zollars, who has been getting fresh flowers via Greyhound for 15 years. For now, at least, her business is safe. Company management has frantically patched together its Los Angeles-Bishop route by chartering buses from other lines to fill in the schedule...