Word: high
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japanese companies say they have the technology to build extensive subterranean projects without disturbing the people aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...
Last week Nunn and an ideologically diverse group of Democratic legislators kicked off the most ambitious drive for national service in more than a generation. They envision a Citizens Corps that would enlist as many as 1 million young high school graduates to spend at least a year working for $100 a week in places like hospices and homeless shelters in their local communities. The volunteers would also have the option of entering the armed forces at wage rates significantly below those of regular soldiers. The national-service proposal -- originally developed by sociologist Charles Moskos and the Democratic Leadership Council...
...ESOP surge has raised some eyebrows in Congress. For one thing, ESOPs were never intended as a way for corporate managers to entrench themselves against takeover bids or for corporate raiders to enrich themselves. For % another, the cost of providing the tax breaks is running as high as $3 billion a year at a time when deficit cutting is urgent...
...almost a decade, Margaret Atwood's fellow Canadians have dubbed her the "high priestess of angst." If the title is not exactly flattering, it is not entirely unfair. Most of her previous two dozen volumes of poems and fiction were freighted with allegorical misery: The Edible Woman feels herself cannibalized by family and friends; the paleontologist of Life Before Man views the people around her as potential fossils; in The Handmaid's Tale, a future America goes to hell when it is taken over by religious fundamentalists. But in Cat's Eye, Atwood jettisons her old techniques in favor...
...young stand-up comic with a little Tonight show experience under his belt. Now, on the eve of the seventh anniversary of his own late- night show, Letterman is riding high as TV's most inventive and influential comic. Yet he still looks up to Johnny Carson, gets annoyed at guests who don't come prepared, and wonders why some people think he's mean...