Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three republics are also the cause of Gorbachev's greatest anxiety. Thanks to his policies of decentralization and democratization, the powers that be in the Baltics are looking less nervously toward Moscow, but they are also listening far more attentively to their own people...
...hero for clearing out? Good, portentous questions, explored by his former friends. The answers may not quite measure up, and the author uses the novelistic device of the omniscient narrator, leaving the reader uncertain of how evidence was tracked down. But when Carsey turns up tending bar more or less happily in the Southwest, it seems that his problems may have been nothing much more than an empty marriage and heavy drinking. He spoke eloquently by his action, and has little more...
Behind Yeltsin's down-home humor was a stark message about the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R., he warned, had barely a year, or less,to put its house in order. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, "and if we go over the edge, it will lead to a cataclysm, not only for the Soviet Union but for the whole world...
...city once called itself "the lungs of Philadelphia," but residents now say that the exhaust fumes from tour buses make the air unbreathable. Thanks to tax revenues from the casinos (more than 63% of the $130 million raised annually), local property owners are assessed less for public education than in most other parts of the state. But the school superintendent has been fighting for years with a casino over the purchase price of a parcel of land needed to replace a leaky 65-year-old high school...
...that the carrier has begun to phase out its lucrative business of providing maintenance for other airlines. Maintenance projects at the base can require up to 100,000 mechanic-hours for the overhaul of a single 747 jumbo jet. "We've added 3,000 people in less than a year," says Joseph O'Gorman, United's senior vice president for maintenance operations, "and we're looking at another 1,000 in the next six months for the care and feeding of older planes." But that is just the beginning. "As our fleet expands and our service to Europe starts...