Word: minimall
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But behind the debate are the families who live the minimal life. More than 3 million Americans survive on the minimum wage, and millions more, like the Wellses, hover just above it. As inflation hummed along at 4% or 5% a year and buying power eroded, many lost their financial...
It was the most rural of all the regions of the U.S., its people the least likely to move far from home if white and most likely to migrate northward if black. It was the one region, as Woodward so tellingly noted, whose people knew what it meant to lose...
Since 1982, Canada has been governed by a constitution that was never endorsed by Quebec, home to one-quarter of the country's population. Quebec felt that, among other things, the document did not adequately protect its distinct French linguistic and cultural heritage, which is threatened by immigration and a...
Thus one man spent $160.6 million for a brace of paintings, sending the top end of the market from obscenity into farce; and the drain of America's cultural patrimony continued, watched by hamstrung museums that were now selling, not buying. New York's Guggenheim Museum sold a 1914 Kandinsky...
But there's more to it than that. The old system, for all its drawbacks, worked. And people had grown used to the old system, which at least guaranteed a certain minimal standard of living. Who knows what the new one will bring? And lastly, Gorbachev and his close associates...