Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 90.8 percent of the voted counted, Mitterrand had 54.21 percent and Chirac 45.79 percent. Turnout was estimated at 84.7 percent, less than the 85.9 percent voting in the 1981 presidential election. More than 38 million people were elgible to vote...
...trucks down to Nicaragua to give "real humanitarian aid to the people of Nicaragua." The efforts by these Vietnam veterans to aid the Nicaraguan people strike at the heart of Reagan administration policy in that region by questioning whether it seeks to bring about freedom or has some other, less benevolent purpose. The answer may be that U.S. policy objectives in Central America are no different from what some contend they were in Vietnam...
Gorey is now a senior correspondent for TIME in Washington, but the tennis matches at Hickory Hill are less frequent. (Ethel, he reports, still plays furiously.) Gorey's fascination with the clan is undiminished. "The Kennedys were youthful, attractive and appealing," he says. "There is something riveting about a family that had so much and also suffered so much -- assassinations, accidental deaths, drug problems. Yet they are always trying, never retreating...
...minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, is at its lowest level since 1955; in cities like New York and Los Angeles, minimum- wage service jobs will hardly pay for food and clothing, let alone an apartment and a car. Between 1979 and 1987, the number of hourly workers toiling at less than poverty-level wages ($9,464 for a family of three) jumped from 2.8 million to 15 million...
...parasitizes roach eggs, Roth brought home 100 cockroach egg cases and hid them in his basement. He then released 450 wasps in the basement, allowing them to parasitize the eggs. When it came time to collect the egg cases, Roth made two unpromising discoveries: First, that the wasps parasitized less than a third of the egg cases, and second, that he could not find about 20 of the egg cases...