Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main reason for traveling to Cornhusker land was to cover the Ameritas Classic, the annual men's basketball tournament held at the University of Nebraska. There were differences here, too. The main difference was just how taller the Cornhuskers were compared to the Harvard team. However, that wasn't the only difference...
...Eastern Europe's main problems is concealed inflation: too much money chasing too few goods. West Germany's remarkable postwar recovery was based on a brutal currency reform that in 1948, under Allied military government, destroyed all savings and, by restoring the scarcity value of money, ended the barter economy. Eastern Europe suffers from another economic distortion: the incestuous trade patterns that are a legacy of the Stalinist years. Trade under Comecon, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was based on a curious reverse mercantilism: the imperial country (the Soviet Union) supplied energy and raw materials that the colonies...
...pushing and prodding is slowly taking place. "There are 600 women's business organizations in America," says Wendy ^ Reid Crisp, director of the National Association for Female Executives, "from women in film to women in construction." Most of the groups were born in the 1980s, says Crisp, and their main focus is changing the workplace, battling the glass ceiling and pushing for child-care benefits. Labor unions are also playing a role in these struggles. In any given month in cities around the country, seminars, workshops and conventions assemble to discuss these same concerns. "This is not the organized women...
...guard in the crossroads town of Chtaura, east of Beirut, parliament elected Elias Hraoui, also a ) Maronite Catholic, to succeed Moawad. Hraoui, 59, is a wealthy landowner who has good contacts with Lebanese Muslims. He promptly appointed a Cabinet of national reconciliation with representatives from the country's seven main sects, a major accomplishment. "Of course the Deputies are frightened," said Boutros Harb, a Christian Deputy. "But courage is the son of fear...
...Most places now have electricity, but few have television, and the phones can be temperamental. But for the tens of thousands of tourists who tumble out of the cruise ships into Charlotte Amalie each week, the effects of the storm are almost hidden. Most of the jewelry shops along Main Street have reopened, to beguile passengers with special one-time-only sales that never end. Everywhere there are sounds of rebuilding. At the island's largest hotel, Frenchman's Reef, the hammering begins at 7:30 a.m., and the wind smells of hot tar. Guests by the pool...