Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...item is on everyone's list of potential benefits of high-temperature super-conductors: maglevs, or magnetically levitated superfast trains. It is a safe prediction, since the new materials give promise of electromagnets far more powerful and economical than those in use today. And it is the electromagnet that lifts and propels existing maglevs in Japan, West Germany and Britain...
...before his death; and (b) to effect an early retirement from power. Given the ways in which most authoritarian leaders view their interests and the limited leverage the U.S. has in most Third World countries, neither of these courses of action is likely to be very productive." In each item, the statement is either incorrect or very unclear, even incomprehensible to me. The authors' pronouncements, with language like "virtually insure" or "the greater the probability," in the context of tables, numbers, probability and variables, give the illusion of science without its content. Of course, there was political instability...
...enterprise has been an overnight hit. The makers of the jewelry receive two rubles ($3), and the sellers get 1.50 rubles ($2.25) for each item that sells for five rubles ($7.50). That leaves 1.50 rubles for Sasha as the "organizer." (Marx called Sasha's profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from...
...Many of these old recordings--some date back 50 years--have considerably better sound quality than they did on record format, and the fact that the recordings themselves are being reissued often means that they are high-quality performances. For the time being, though, CDs are still a luxury item, and many college students are waiting for a post-graduation job before buying a CD player...
Academic salaries are the largest budget item, generally accounting for around 60% of total expenses. During the '70s, professors' salaries grew at an overall rate of 73%, lagging far behind inflation at 112%. Universities have been playing catch-up in the '80s. This year's raises average 5.9%, which is 4% above inflation and the largest since 1972. Yet the typical tenured professor's salary of $43,500 still represents 10% less buying power than the equivalent salary...