Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech to the United Nations last month, he promised to change practically everything about the Soviet Union except its name (and, presumably, its leader). Asked at a press conference the next day whether he believed Gorbachev was sincere in trying to remake the Soviet Union into a less threatening country, Ronald Reagan replied, "Yes, I do." Coming from the longtime and unabashed cold warrior, in the midst of his own swan song, those three words were almost as significant as Gorbachev's hour-long oration...
...only his position on that key issue were a little more ambiguous. The recent diplomatic progress between the Arabs and the U.S., however welcome, could still end up being a sideshow to the tragedy of the principals passing in the night. As the P.L.O.'s leaders are becoming less rejectionist, Israel's are becoming more so. Israel may be undergoing a self-transformation of the wrong kind...
...Since then, the Aboriginal population has grown back to 230,000, or 1.3% of Australia's 16 million people. About 11% have never gone to school (vs. 1% of Australian whites), and 30% are unemployed (vs. 7% of whites). The life expectancy of Aborigines is 18 years less than that of whites. Significantly, Aborigines gained the right to vote only 21 years...
...Economic Education, which found that only one out of three high school students in its 41-state poll could define such basic concepts as profit and the law of supply and demand. The 8,205 eleventh- and twelfth-graders who took the 40-minute multiple-choice test correctly answered less than 40% of the 46 questions. Declared William Walstad, a co-author of the study: "Our schools are producing a nation of economic illiterates...
...with a texture as real as newsreel. And yet its plot skeleton bears similarities to Platoon. In both films, two strong men fight to establish American values in a hostile country, and to claim the soul of an innocent. In both films, the local nonwhites -- yellow or black -- are less a group of dramatic characters than a plot device, a shadow, a chorus, a landscape, an idea...