Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...POWERFUL mystique surrounds PBHA. Its record of good works tends to deflect criticism of the organization's operations. But the fact is that there are problems at PBHA that need to be addressed. Staff-student relations must be high on the agenda of PBHA's upcoming reorganization...
TRAVEL: With the high season fast approaching, the battered Caribbean rushes to be ready...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...
...Economic restructuring has already cost millions of Soviets their jobs this year, pushing up the unemployment rate -- as high as 27% in Azerbaijan, for example...
...advice and much needed economic expertise, but massive financial aid would be ill advised and probably not what the Soviets want in any case. Abalkin has already mentioned that the Soviets would like to be given the trading status of most favored nation, along with more freedom to import high-technology goods. But by and large, Soviet economists understand that they have to solve their own problems. Said Abalkin: "We have an old Russian saying, 'Drowning men must save themselves...