Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week the Coast Guard and Customs had grabbed some 1,700 conveyances, including the $2.5 million yacht Ark Royal and the good ship Monkey Business, famed as the holiday vessel of Gary Hart and Donna Rice. Those two ships were also returned, but the fate of hundreds of less celebrated transports still hangs in the balance...
...naive as to believe jailing Lehder would make a dent in drug smuggling. In Congress, a desperate search was under way to find something that might work. The Senate has followed the House's lead by voting 83 to 6 to force the military to participate in antismuggling efforts. Less certain is the outcome of an amendment to the defense appropriations bill, offered by D'Amato, to institute a federal death penalty for drug-related killings, an idea backed strongly by Reagan and Bush...
...into some of these places, but as soon as we put one out of business, another springs up. We need to direct more attention from interdiction efforts to educating the user to reject drugs." Giuliani, while favoring more enforcement and tougher penalties, in part agrees. Says he: "We spend less than $500 million on treatment and education, and that is nowhere near what needs to be spent...
This internal struggle, carried on for the most part out of the public eye, explains some of the inconsistencies of Gorbachev's reform moves. While he cautiously moves toward a less rigid centralization of the Soviet economy, his program has in fact further centralized decision making. The idea is to keep those decisions out of the hands of conservative regional officials. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is now available, most of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize, are still banned. Glasnost, it is clear, can go only...
...reduction of the deficit suggests that the 40% fall in the value of the dollar against major industrial currencies over the past three years, which has made U.S. exports less expensive in foreign countries, is at last having a substantial impact. Among the products selling particularly well in overseas markets: aircraft, office equipment and telecommunications gear. Says U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter: "The lower dollar has thrown open doors that were closed to American exporters for much of the decade." Says Robert Ortner, an Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Commerce Department: "This is a genuine export boom...