Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most people, life's basic necessities are satisfied, but anything more--a cup of mocha in a cafe, a second pair of shoes--is a luxury. The per capita income is about $125, less than a fifth of that in neighboring Thailand. Government workers earn monthly salaries of between 200 and 500 dong--worth no more than $55 even at the official exchange rate. Housing is free for civil servants: Nguyen Than Tan, 24, a Foreign Ministry employee, shares a 10-ft. by 12-ft. dormitory room with three other men. Food is subsidized, but rations are meager. Officially...
...conclusions about Viet Nam are the opposite of Martin's. "It was not Watergate that made Saigon's survival impossible," he has written. "It was the fatal . . . imbalance between what (South Viet Nam) would have needed from us and what our own society would let us provide. The basic error was not in any one failure, but in the attempt itself...
...ballplayer. You don't hear Enos Cabell saying 'I did this' and 'I did that.'" I think that's what drives me nuts about Sparky Anderson, that he's so full of brown stuff that it doesn't seem like he has nay words left over for a basic fundamental understanding of the game. I want to look as a player on the basis of what, specifically, he can and cannot do to help you win a baseball game, but Sparky's to full of "winners" and Sparky's so full of "winners" and "discipline" and "we ballplayers" and self...
Ever since the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, biologists have believed the language of DNA to be rather like the Latin of the medieval church: universal, fundamental and indispensable. It seemed that all creatures, from men to mice to humble E. coli bacteria, shared the same basic instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life; variations among organisms were thought to involve only the number and type of proteins that are strung together. Now researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have found species + that defy certain words in the genetic scripture: in the familiar Paramecium...
...involved in the riots; Nimeiri, wary of its growing power, had recently cracked down on that group. Instead, said one Western official, "people appeared to be venting their frustrations at recent price rises in gasoline and bread." The increases followed Nimeiri's decision to end subsidies on some basic commodities, part of an economic austerity plan demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Nimeiri is expected to cite last week's unrest in asking Reagan to ease U.S. demands for economic reforms and to release $181 million in U.S. assistance...