Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world." Vic's antagonist (and here the term is literal) is Robyn Penrose, an attractive, rigorously feminist lecturer in literature at the local university -- a specialist in the 19th century industrial novel, no less. To bolster her chance of a permanent appointment, Robyn goes along with a university scheme to shadow Vic's movements for one day a week in the interests of better academic-industrial understanding. The result: temperaments and cultures clash. Complications multiply. Romance, of course, blooms. Wittily rueful insights emerge...
...from settling without representation, since it is virtually certain in crash cases that damages will be paid. But a study last year by the Rand Corp. found that litigation often does not yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that lawyers will continue to litigate these cases avidly. As insurer...
...told, the plan may provide Mexico with about $4 billion in loan reductions, $6 billion in interest-rate reductions and $2.5 billion in new credits. That is much less than the 55% debt relief, or $29.7 billion, that Mexico originally asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers...
...London and Paris, and last week it was reported that he went for three nights without sleep because of the endless meetings. Gorbachev is under terrific pressure to produce the goods, literally, before his time runs out. Many Soviet experts in Europe and Washington predict that he has less than two years to complete his reforms and get the store shelves filled with the things his workers want to buy. If Gorbachev fails, his audacious political rendition of Surfin' U.S.S.R. could suffer the fate that wave riders most dread: a wipeout...
...some bit of ingenuity and/or luck, Sellars discovered two talented young identical twins, Eugene and Herbert Perry, and cast them as Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. This provides all kinds of ironies on the brotherhood of master and man, but it also obliterates the no less important differences between them. Thus in the famous scene in which the two switch costumes so that the servant can court one of his master's ladies, Sellars' twins make a meaningless exchange of their leather jackets...