Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right that in the course of just 15 years many Americans have come to regard as no less inalienable than freedom of religion or expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some close to middle age; nearly a fifth married, the rest single. But in the eyes of many Americans, the right to abortion, established by the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, is not a right at all, but a wrong...
...Baryshnikov's enduring commitment has been to the American Ballet Theatre. After several years of critical condescension -- and he does read and ! react to adverse reviews -- he is finally getting some respect for having greatly improved the level of performance, relying less on imported etoiles and instead nurturing young talent within the troupe...
Without any debate, Baryshnikov is a performer of artistic genius, but no man is a hero to his corps de ballet. The big morale crisis in Private View involved the casting of the film Dancers, a modern gloss on the classic Giselle. Less than half the troupe's dancers were selected; for the rest, rejection amounted to a devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers...
...work stoppages are intended to persuade Delhaize to give a better deal to its nearly 30,000 workers in its 522 Food Lion stores in the U.S. Most of those employees receive no benefits and are paid 40% less than the wages earned at rival stores, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which hopes to organize the Food Lion workers. The Belgian workers plan to keep up their campaign for a year...
...company but for the entire economy," says M.I.T. economist Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate. Modigliani adds that while the debt mountain has not yet grown perilously high, "LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk...