Word: minimall
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Both operas are helped by solid productionvalues. The costumes and props are effective,achieving a maximum effect with minimal means. Thespatial organization of the stage is intelligent.In La Rondine especially, the dual centersof action reinforce the parallel plot development.
The initial reaction was shock and sympathy when legendary Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis yesterday announced to the world that he has AIDS. Louganis is the only male diver to sweep the diving gold in consecutive Olympics - and managed to do so the second time, during the 1988 Seoul Games...
The war in Chechnya began almost on the same day in December as the conflict in Afghanistan had begun 15 years earlier. But that is all the two campaigns have in common. In Afghanistan a small group of special forces from the kgb and the gru, the military intelligence service...
While the bankers played, government oversight was, to put it mildly, minimal. Wearing his central-banker hat, Tinoco ensured that new regulations governing the industry did not take effect and that oversight remained inadequate. According to later investigations, regulatory officials were paid to look the other way or lacked the...
Then things changed. In May 1993 Perez was impeached for corruption involving the misuse of public funds; he is currently on trial. In early 1993 the economy also took a sharp downturn. The crunch hit hardest at real- estate and construction companies. As they started to default, the banks attempted...