Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum and concert hall are being built on the site of an old slaughterhouse in eastern Paris. A large new "people's opera" is on the drawing boards. Subsidies have kept books relatively cheap and at the same time prevented venerable bookshops from being killed off by discount chain stores. But Lang's free spending, including an almost completed maison des écrivains (House of Writers) with word processors for budding authors, has neither increased literary output nor raised its quality. Lang's approach-that a Renaissance cannot be legislated-has yet to be demonstrated...
Nachtwey does not discount the risks he takes. "I've had close calls on "almost every assignment, and was wounded by a land mine in El Salvador in 1982," he says. "After a while, you tend not to think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing...
...sponsor of last weekend's matches, the Eastern Rugby Union, has arranged a 20 percent discount with World Airways on plane fare, but even with the discount each rugger will have...
...March that service to New York City's corporate customers has declined, but said they intend to bring it back to normal levels by July. With a backlog of 20,000 orders, there is now a wait of up to six weeks for high-volume discount wide-area telecommunications service (WATS) lines and 800 numbers, vs. five to 15 days last year...
...half hours, and few have survived longer than a day. This ripping of posters is a very real and serious form of psychological violence. To participate in it or simply to stand silently by is to wage psychological warfare against other members of the Harvard/Radcliffe community. To discount the effect of these selectively violent actions is to be blind to the power of psychological abuse. And psychological abuse, if allowed to escalate, frequently leads to physical violence...