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...boasts more than 5,000 scientists and technicians--a skilled work force that is, by Western standards, grossly underpaid (average monthly salary: 400 pesos, or about $10). Peter Scott, chief executive of London-based Beta Funds Ltd., estimates that a European drugmaker could produce its drugs in Cuba for one-tenth the cost of local production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADE IN CUBA | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

From then on Franklin dedicated one-tenth of his time to preaching. He preached in auditoriums and gyms, in towns like Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and New Philadelphia, Ohio. After his 36th crusade, in May 1994 in Charleston, West Virginia, his father, having watched him for the first time, hugged him and told him he was proud of him. In September Franklin preached in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the audience was his older sister, Anne Graham Lotz, herself an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who had inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift. Afterward, Lotz told Business North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

Sophomore Brian Younger touched out freshman teammate Alex Kurmakov by one-tenth of a second in the 200 freestyle, finishing with a time...

Author: By Maggie Jacobberger, | Title: M. Swimming Tops Brown | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...might guess, I'm a native Californian, as are one-tenth of my fellow Harvardians (we're the ones whose faces you can't see under our scarves, hoods and hats). I'm from sunny San Diego, no less. And I have just one question for all you die-hard New Englanders, or those of you from places with even worse climates (perish the thought): Why be cold when you don't have...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dreadful, Lovely Winter | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

WHILE FRANCE IS TAKING ALL THE BLAME and is the focus of protests for raising nuclear fears, China has kept on performing underground A-bomb tests, and does not get even one-tenth the media attention the French experiments do. Why are the Greenpeace activists always ready to move forward and promote all kinds of demonstrations when the event involves a Western corporation or government, particularly the French? And why do they keep a low profile or even a significative silence when similar actions are performed by a socialist nation like China? Come on, guys, if you really mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1995 | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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