Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like St. Peter's, which the Protestants of 16th century Europe scorned as a scandalous extravagance, Our Lady of Peace is being maligned as an unseemly expense in a country with an annual per capita income of $650. Demands a devout Ivory Coaster: "Why build a church for God while there are so many unemployed and near starving?" The regime counters that the church was paid for entirely by private funds provided by Houphouet-Boigny and his sister and was built on land owned by the President...
...never to have seen the sheets before.) A handwriting analyst, formerly with the FBI, contends that they were written in Rose's hand. Meanwhile, as the two-day hearing adjourned last Friday, the Reds' manager was at an autograph show in Atlantic City, stoically selling his signature at $15 per scribble. "Being fair and legally correct aren't always the same thing," Judge Norbert A. Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled for Monday. Nadel did not have to say the stakes were even higher than...
...study, the General Accounting Office reported last week that at airports with one or two dominant carriers, fares per passenger-mile were 27% higher than at other airports. Airline spokesmen disputed the conclusion. The Air Transport Association, an industry group, released a study showing that fares were only 3.8% higher at hub airports. Congressional subcommittees are studying both reports...
Just in time to hit motorists at the start of the peak driving season, gasoline prices have risen about 25% in the past two months, to a U.S. average of $1.25 per gal. The pain at the pump is largely the result of higher crude- oil prices, and no relief is in sight. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose squabbling has sometimes led to price wars, were relatively cooperative with one another when they met last week in Vienna. Because of strong worldwide demand for OPEC's crude, the group decided that it could boost its self...
...much notice would have to be taken? To Scott Peters, spokesman for the pro-nuclear power U.S. Council on Energy Awareness in Washington, it seemed Sacramento voters were not "against nuclear power per se" but "against a plant that had a bad operating record." Peters concluded, "We don't think this interrupts our progress." The contrary view was expressed by Scott Denman, executive director of the Safe Energy Communications Council in Washington. The vote was a "proverbial shot heard round the world," he said, adding, "This is an unprecedented breakthrough for advocates of economical and safe energy and a severe...