Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Party, played the moderate during his two years in the post, Arens is expected to act the hard- liner. Arens, 63, was one of the few Israeli politicians who refused to support the Camp David peace accords with Egypt in 1978, and no one expects him to display any less determination in pressing his opposition to negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Warns a U.S. official who counts the former Israeli Ambassador to Washington as a friend: "It will be tough to strike a deal with Arens." He adds, "But if you have a deal, it sticks...
...Since less than 5% of the world's tropical forests receive any protection, the stage is set for mass extinctions. Many plants and animals are doomed, no matter what measures are taken. Some researchers estimate that at least 12% of the bird species in the Amazon basin, as well as 15% of the plants in Central and South America, can be counted among what Janzen calls the "living dead." Many tropical mammals and reptiles face only bleak survival under what amounts to house arrest in game parks and zoos...
While the NUMMI plant is considered better than some Japanese factories in Japan, it is still less efficient than Toyota City. The team leaders who were sent to Japan took one look at the "young wiry kids" working at 350 m.p.h. on the line and said...
...English. And they get around. Kimura, when he has the chance, "goes around landscape" with his family a lot. The popular spots are Napa Valley, Monterey, Carmel, Arizona's Grand Canyon and Reno. But for the Japanese, nothing vies with golf. In California, with greens fees for 18 holes less than half what they are in Japan, and good golf equipment a fraction of the price there, everybody is playing the game...
...largest outpouring of foreign aid to the Soviet Union since World War II could produce a surge of goodwill that will further reduce East-West tensions. The disaster held the potential of changing perceptions on both sides: the humanitarian assistance might make the Soviet people view the West as less of a threat, while the pictures of stricken Armenians might make Westerners more sympathetic to the Soviets in general. "It has a humanizing effect," said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "It has become part of official policy to express gratitude not only for the aid they receive...