Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trading stock options is a high-risk business. That is why Jack Keller of Winnetka, Ill., took up the trade: compared with his previous career as a professional poker player, being a market maker looked low key. Keller, the No. 2 U.S. money winner at poker -- $300,000 this year -- has traded a seat at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one on the Chicago Board Options Exchange...
Though the Soviets have not recently repeated their claim that AIDS is a strain of germ warfare concocted by the CIA, they do maintain that the disease is essentially a Western problem because of the allegedly low incidence of both homosexuality and intravenous-drug use in the Soviet Union. According to the TASS news agency, 1 million tests have been conducted among blood donors and people in high-risk categories. Out of this number, the agency said, there have been 102 positive tests, 80 of which were obtained from foreigners...
...most dramatic decline involves women in U.S. religious orders. Since 1966, their total has dropped from 181,000 to 114,000. A far more disastrous loss lies ahead, because the average age of sisters is now 62, and the number of novices is extremely low. Partly on account of the loss of nuns and the rising costs that result, overall parochial-school enrollments have dropped in the same period, from 5.6 million to 2.9 million, despite an influx of non- Catholic students in some urban schools...
Enlisted men and officers are also disgruntled with low wages and severe shortages of the most basic supplies. Those conditions, combined with Honasan's charismatic personality, no doubt fueled last week's coup attempt. Some of the colonel's confederates say Honasan did not plan to overthrow the popular Aquino but had only wanted to force the resignation of Ramos and improve the military's lot. But Captain Rex Robles, a close friend of Honasan's, believes the main target was the President. Said Robles: "If you bring Ramos down, then who is Cory...
Some labor specialists think these trends may soon begin to reverse as work-force demographics change. A shortage of workers owing to the low birthrates of the '60s and early '70s is already being felt by employers who try to hire youths for entry-level jobs. Columbia University Professor David Lewin predicts that as the birth dearth works through the ranks of the labor force, "employees are going to have the upper hand in bargaining power." Job insecurity will subside, he thinks, and workers will win higher wages, lowering the pressure to put in more hours...