Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Less corrupt but far more menacing than the traditional authorities are the Pasdaran, or Revolutionary Guards, who constantly patrol the streets. Says a young Iranian Jew who fled to Israel: "They stop you if they do not like your looks or if they have the slightest suspicion that you are not obeying the rules of Islam. If you go hand in hand with your wife, they will stop you and force you to show them your marriage license. If you do not have the document, you will be arrested." In the minds of many Iranians, the Revolutionary Guards have taken...
...beauty of all the latest whizbangs is that they can be bought without taking out a second mortgage. Fierce price competition has enabled customers to pay less than they would have a few months ago, or to get a better machine for the same amount of money. Compaq's new Portable III computer, which is being pitched to executives, sells for as little as $3,200. In February the same model sold for $3,999. Prices on other computers that have been introduced this year are also falling. Some Houston retailers will sell an IBM Model...
...attempts to obtain nuclear materials. And an appropriations subcommittee has already voted to suspend a small portion of the aid. Many analysts believe congressional action will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical issues is likely to temper a more draconian response to Pakistan's less than cooperative rejoinder. But at the same time, the hope among U.S. officials is that Pakistan will come to grips with the necessity to calm legitimate fears in Washington that Pakistan's nuclear program might touch off a dangerous regional arms race...
...fact, the enduring affection of the public for Holmes and Watson appears to be quite a conundrum. But, as the master says in The Red-Headed League, "as a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be." Let us examine the evidence. We may eliminate any lobbying by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to win public esteem for his creations. He once confided to his mother, "I am in the middle of the last Holmes story, after which the gentleman vanishes, never to return. I am weary of his name...
That investigation eventually resulted in Best Intentions, which is less a book about Edmund Perry than a record of the author's own voyage of discovery, his piecing together of the puzzle of Perry's life and death. Anson talked with dozens of people who knew Perry and gradually learned that Eddie was not the blithe, well-adjusted young man that he had been depicted as being. In fact, he was a tortured, troubled teenager who could not reconcile his narrow past with his privileged present. Poised between two worlds, he felt at home in neither...