Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans was outraged by the brutality of the murder, and at a trial in October 1982 a New Orleans jury needed less than three hours to recommend a death sentence against Rault. "Crimes don't come any more hideous," said the prosecutor, David Paddison. "The death penalty was eminently justified...
...Color Transmission) Center in New York City. There Seth Zeitlin, one of six systems managers, received the data on tape and entered the information into TIME's computer system. Finally a high-resolution picture was printed, and Richer could see the photo that Moyer and Kim had selected less than an hour before in Seoul...
Operation Stronghold, as the policy is known, was approved by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in mid-1985, when less violent attempts to arrest poachers proved ineffective. Most of the rhino hunters cross the border from Zambia. Rangers try to stop them without bloodshed, insists Blondie Leathem, 29, who coordinates the Zambezi Valley patrols, but "trying to arrest a man with an AK-47 is like trying to grab a lion with your bare hands. We must often shoot first to protect our lives...
...rich as his name suggests; he says his worth is about $7 million. He lives well within his means, managing all his own investments, frugally watching the bills. His aides affectionately describe him as "tight." To rephrase Hemingway: The rich are different from you and me; they spend less money...
...Pope can and will find many signs of exceptional vitality in American Catholicism. Attendance at worship services is notably higher in the U.S. than in most other Western countries: 54% in the TIME poll report that they attend Mass weekly or nearly every week. Still, 38% say they attend less frequently than a decade ago, and 60% say they go to confession less often than they used to. The poll also finds that less than one-fifth of the laity is unhappy with the leadership of bishops and priests...