Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some two miles north of the glittering lights of Tokyo's Ginza district is a lesser-known commercial enclave that, in its way, is every bit as dazzling. Called Akihabara, it is a booming bazaar that spills over 20 blocks and is probably the world's most fiercely competitive market for electrical goods. In hundreds of sprawling stores and cubbyhole shops festooned with brightly colored banners proclaiming bargains, customers can buy almost any type of vacuum cleaner or videocassette recorder, refrigerator or radio, humidifier or home computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores...
...well known that six million European Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust during the Second World War. But a crew of Harvard students is now trying to publicize a lesser known but comparably brutal genocide the starvation of according to scholars estimates seven to 10 million Ukrainians in 1932-33 by the Soviet Union...
More than any classical tragedian. O'Neill is obsessed with death-and neurosis. Orin, and to a lesser degree Ezra, are shattered by the horrors of war. And for all of the main characters, death eventually becomes the only reality. The sick not only destroy each other, but leave the healthy (such as the neighboring Niles family) irreparably scarred. Such an absolute pessimism is distinctly modern, and purely O'Neill...
...Even in wartime, they ate and drank well." Demarest has been back to Europe almost every year in the past three decades. But he has also enjoyed traveling to and writing in TIME about more exotic places: the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1979, the Caribbean's pristine Lesser Antilles in 1980. In 1978 he and Photographer Carl Mydans were among the first journalists to travel as tourists through China. Their experiences became a cover story for TIME's international editions and later a book, China: A Visual Adventure...
...forum that was interrupted several times by protestors, three Soviet professors and three of their American counterparts agreed that the two countries should establish closer relations and should together work to aid lesser developed nations...