Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help for Public Service, which is battling with dissident creditors over rescue plans. A group of bond owners (estimated holdings: $200 million) led by New York City Investor Martin Whitman is proposing to spin off Public Service's share in Seabrook into a separate company, thus leaving the utility less encumbered by debt. Losing Seabrook, however, is anathema to the utility, which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates by 15%. Rather than adopt...
...Anything less exciting might send many fire fighters packing. "A fire is quick and dirty," explains Larry Humphrey, 40, a natural-resource specialist from Safford, Ariz., who is in charge of 250 fire fighters. "I guess I don't have the patience for any other job." A 15-year veteran of forest fires, Humphrey has had only one day off in a month, but says he would keep on working for free. As he talks, nearby flames shoot several hundred feet up a Douglas fir in a matter of seconds. The tremendous roar is followed by the thunder...
There are actually few things less new than the "new history." Its arrival was announced at least as far back as 1912, by James Harvey Robinson, who declared that "trifling details" of dynastic wars must be displaced by the chronicle of the "common man," and that such chronicles should rely on the discoveries of "anthropologists, economists, psychologists, and sociologists." This arguable proposition has increasingly become the conventional wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History...
...tempted by a she-lag, consults a chaplain on the validity of marriage vows made in another hemisphere. Perhaps the greatest irony is the novel's skimpiness. The cast of characters is rollicking, and the plots are properly tangled. But little is fleshed out, and the actors onstage seem less artificial than the occurrences that take place outside the makeshift theater. In Keneally's retelling, the play within the play's the thing...
...concentration of power" and of harboring the "ambitions of a madman." In seizing power last week, Compaore, 36, the Minister of State and Justice, used the same special commando unit he placed at Sankara's disposal in 1983. Western diplomats in Burkina Faso expect him to be a less flamboyant leader than Sankara but to continue most of his policies. Despite the death of their author, the national radio said, the policies' basic wisdom "is not called into question...