Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Bundy said, the United States will spend less on expensive, high technology weapons systems such as the B-1 Stealth Bomber and the proposed space-based missile defense shield known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which he said would provide an "admittedly imperfect defense...
...hockey team and swimmer David Berkoff rolled to national championships, another squad's success went less noticed...
...cost of developing the new F-100 almost throttled Fokker, which the Dutch government had to bail out with loans that grew to $700 million by 1987. The new F-100, designed to carry about 100 passengers on trips of 1,000 miles or less, is as technologically advanced as the offerings of Fokker's larger rivals. Powered by Rolls-Royce engines, the plane is highly fuel efficient and quiet. In test flights in February, the F-100 performed well within the toughest airport-noise restrictions...
...artists working the phones are robbing consumers of $1 billion or more every year. So far, law-enforcement officials can do little to stop them. -- As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports are taking off. -- Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison. Don't mess around with Jim Hightower...
...voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits will be going to produce new public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down...