Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a dangerous doctrine. Less than three weeks ago, the militant Animal Liberation Front (ALF) firebombed nine British stores which sell fur coats. In New York, Jewish furriers have been the targets of anti-fur vandalism which equates the manufacture of fur coats to Nazism...
...People are angry, people want a full explanation of what happened," said Suarez, who also expressed particular concern about the damage to Miami's image less than a week before the city hosts the Super Bowl...
Today a growing corps of experienced medics look upon volunteer medicine as a career. Salaries are minimal: doctors in the field are paid between $700 and $800 a month, nurses somewhat less. But most of those who go abroad feel they are more than compensated by a sense of venturesome achievement. Stephane Michon, a French nurse, contracted malaria during a tour in Thailand, but she readily said yes when M.S.F. asked her to go to Sudan to work with refugees...
...wider selection than is available in state stores. But not all rubles are created equal: a top Soviet bureaucrat can buy a food package that may include canned crab, high-quality cheese, imported hard salami and lean meat. For a factory worker, the package would more likely contain chicken, less desirable cheese, domestic sausage and canned fish. Even some of the artful dodges developed by resourceful shoppers over the years are proving unreliable in the current crisis. "I've always bought meat on the black market at a premium," says a well-off Moscow writer. "But now I'm having...
Whyte alluded to what some investigators concede is a distressing possibility: the Pan Am bombers may never be identified, much less punished. Despite suspicions that focus on Palestinian terrorist leaders Ahmed Jibril and Abu Nidal, no clues have turned up so far that prove either of them orchestrated the atrocity. As an American intelligence official put it, "There's nothing out there...