Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store has an inventory of nearly 10,000 items, sporting everything from Levi's Dockers for less than $30 to 28 different colors of all-cotton turtle-necks at $8.99 a piece...
...fiscal 1990, the law required Congress to produce a budget with a deficit of less than $110 billion. Despite the Administration's optimistic forecasts of continued strong economic growth and lower interest rates plus some fiscal legerdemain, congressional efforts fell $6.1 billion short...
...cyclosporine may have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary...
...solution is less certain in those parts of Africa racked by starvation and civil war, where CITES decisions carry little weight, tourist dollars are nonexistent, and the herds continue to shrink. In Angola and Mozambique, for example, rebels use ivory to help finance military operations. Said a spokesman for Mozambique: "If the war stops, people can live, students can go back to school, and yes, we can save elephants...
Victor Afanasyev and Vladislav Starkov are both journalists, but they're unlikely ever to share a byline. As editor of the gray-tinged daily Pravda, Afanasyev, 66, has been less than eager to rush into print any of the startling revelations or investigative spadework that has become the hallmark of glasnost. On the other hand, Starkov, 50, oversees the weekly tabloid Argumenty i Fakty, whose sharp prose and readers' letters more often than not dwell on the changes sweeping the country, and helped make the paper the most widely read in the Soviet Union. Yet last week both men faced...