Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seniority entitles him to a salary of about $38 a month -- less than a factory worker, taxi driver, guide and just about every other employed Chinese receives. Even so, for the next four years Bi must get by on $12 less each month. Five dollars is deducted automatically because the cash-starved government insists that state employees buy bonds. The other $7 represents a fine for the second child he and his wife had three years ago -- one child over Beijing's limit...
Environmentalists praised Japan's actions but noted that the reduction in drift-net use was much less sweeping than the ivory ban. Said New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer: "Any drift netting in the South Pacific is unacceptable...
...post-Hugo damage to St. Croix might have been less if protecting the island's image had not been deemed more important than protecting the island itself. Tourism is St. Croix's largest industry, and officials evidently feared that a revival of racial tensions could cause almost as much harm as Hugo. Memories still linger of 1972, when eight people (seven of them white) were murdered on a golf course by gun-toting black leftists. Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said...
When winos name their poison, two of the most called-for brands are Thunderbird and Night Train Express, favored for their high alcohol content (18%) and low price ($2.29 for a 750-ml bottle). The two wines account for less than 3% of total sales for California's giant E. & J. Gallo winery, but they have become an increasing source of controversy for the company. Last week Gallo said that it had voluntarily told its distributors to stop selling the wines to liquor stores in skid-row areas in U.S. cities...
Musically, the Les Miz team here provides something subtler, less lushly melodramatic. Bowman and Claire Moore as his wife make the best of thankless parts, although his pitch and accent wobble while she sings gloriously. Jonathan Pryce is deliciously campy yet sympathetic as the Engineer, a Eurasian pimp evocative of the emcee in Cabaret. In Salonga, a star is born. Playing a plaster saint, she is stunningly real. But the show's final moments are so bleak that despite an $8 million advance, its future may not be assured. Some downers, like Les Miz, are at heart ups. This...