Word: leese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The departure of such a distinguished scientist signals a dramatic change: the brain drain that has enriched the West with tens of thousands of Asia's best and brightest minds has begun to flow in the opposite direction. The Yuan T. Lees of tomorrow still flock to elite North American...
Actually, Ross Perot, Paul Tsongas and Lee Iacocca -- men of considerable popularity -- have proposed even stiffer medicine. Presumably, the millions of Americans who consider themselves Perot-lees favor his 50 cents per gal. phased in over five years. But 4.3 cents a year forever wouldn't be half bad either...
The whole group seemed to be taking it pretty well, actually. I was growing fond of them. There's a contingent from Tennessee. There's mellow Clara. There's Vinnie, who'll be studying Italian so he can talk to his grandparents. And there's Radi, his roommate from Jordan...
Debbie Grodd, 24, and Stanley Lee, 28, of Stamford, Conn., reacted to the hostilities by junking plans for an Aegean honeymoon. "I know chances were slim that something would happen," said Grodd. "But Greece is close to Turkey, and Turkey is next door to Iraq. The last thing we needed...