Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little is likely to change in the meantime; little ever does. Game-show contestants are, as always, relentlessly peppy; bedroom sets and trips to Bermuda still bring squeals of ecstasy; hosts are still genial, well manicured and almost exclusively white males. Sets have, however, grown more lavish over the years, and cash prizes have mounted. The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, which debuted last month, is so proud of offering "the biggest prize in television history" that it displays the cash in bundles stacked on a pedestal at center stage...
There is still a great air of neglect about the place, the air of people scraping by. The 54 faculty members not only continue to bring supplies from home that should be supplied by Fisk--chalk, say--but they are painfully aware that they are working for peanuts; since 1980 the school has provided a single 5% raise. Ponder says he is going for salary adjustments as soon as he is rid of the debt...
AIDS Research. Reagan proposes rescinding $51 million of the $244 million that Congress had appropriated for AIDS research this fiscal year. A budget increase in 1987 would bring appropriations back only to $213 million, which would have to be stretched over many types of research. The Administration contends that money cannot usefully be spent any faster; some researchers predictably disagree. One leading investigator figures that an adequately funded effort to develop a vaccine against AIDS would consume $200 million all by itself...
...Vries, "you could see oil prices go down very, very substantially, to the low teens and below that." The big question is how much economic pain the kingdom is willing to inflict on its rivals. "I don't think Saudi Arabia will want to be the hardliner and bring down countries and companies and banks," said De Vries...
...whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third) of any settlement or court award. Doctors grumble that such fees encourage lawyers to press for outrageous judgments as a way of fattening their own take. But without contingency agreements, lawyers counter, only the wealthy could bring suit...