Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling mothers like 39-year-old Esperanza Lopez that her children would flourish. But her job as a maid in Chinandega pays only about $10 a month, to support three young ones. Says she: "I can only feed them once a day. Maybe it's true that we earned less under the dictatorship, but you could buy more with...
...five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers are tacking on a premium of as much as $4,000 to the base price...
...that serves both as a workplace and library and as a typesetting and proofreading center, he has produced more than 5,000 printed pages in Russian of an epic called The Red Wheel. Using the techniques of fiction but based on exhaustive historical research, this project aims at nothing less than a vast overview of the events leading up to and culminating in the Russian Revolution...
...over most of the Freedom station's proposed experiments in space manufacturing. Another mini-station could handle biomedical studies, and others could be used as assembly and takeoff points for the Mars and subsequent missions. Just as with the moon base, these stations would operate indefinitely. Being smaller and less complicated than Freedom, the mini- stations could presumably be launched and built at a lower overall cost...
Beyond that, notes Dr. Kathleen Nolan of New York's Hastings Center, "there is no consensus on how to talk about frozen embryos." In fact, she observes, the ethical debate is even less focused than the unending rhetorical battle over abortion. Which means, ultimately, that all concerned have a lot of hard thinking to do before legislatures and courts can begin to determine where rights and wrongs begin...