Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Jew in his right mind would come to Beirut?" But members of his faith knew what Friedman was, and some were quick to interpret fact finding as heresy or treason. Why? The author answers, "I had helped to inform the Jews of New York City of the less-than-heroic behavior of the Israeli army in Lebanon, the Sabra and Shatila massacre and other unsettling stories...
...columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance. Asks Bobby Knight, basketball coach of Indiana University: "Why don't the newspapers run whores' phone numbers? Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution...
...political progress that has, in very different ways, plagued Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost-led revolution as well as Deng Xiaoping's marketplace-led revolt. Poland combines robust political competition with a downtrodden economy almost too far gone for reform. Hungary combines an explosion of private enterprise with a less vigorous attitude toward democracy. The message the U.S. and its West European allies can bring to both places is the truth that lies at the heart of democratic capitalism: economic and political freedoms work best in tandem...
...cash and securities. Investors who expected the new Paramount bid to run up the price of Time stock were also disappointed. The company's shares, following the trend in the rest of the market, declined to 155 1/4 at week's end (from a high of 182 3/4 less than three weeks earlier) as speculators began to hedge their bets...
...while the people at the peak of Mount Harvard--like President Derek C. Bok--are much too busy and important to speak to you, in their infinite wisdom they have assembled a cast of less luminous, but always smiling, characters to handle undergraduate concerns...