Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic cars cost a relatively reasonable $50 per day and 30 cents per mile, but customers must belong to National's frequent-renter program (fee: $50 per year). The agency finds that drivers treat the vehicles with tender loving care. Says a National spokesman: "The cars often come back waxed and polished -- better than when we rented them...
...great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is one of its glories: the huge creature's magnificent tusks of ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa, killing the animals with everything from automatic weapons to poison. About 10% of the remaining African elephants were killed last year, reducing their ranks...
...healthy portion of the thrift industry will pay its share through an increase in its insurance premiums. The rate would rise from the current $2.08 per $1,000 of deposits to $2.30 from 1991 until 1994, after which it would decline to $1.80. The rate for banks would increase too, from 83 cents per $1,000 to $1.20 in 1990 and $1.50 thereafter. Even though both industries' insurance funds would be administered by the FDIC, their proceeds will be kept separate...
...really looking for the inexpensive vacation, youth hostels are located in almost every town along the Cape. They run about $10 per night, and are usually built only yards from the water's edge...
...homelessness can not be attributed to mere laziness. Several reasons suggest why no one accepted a recent offer, made by one Harvard Square restaurant owner to residents of a homeless shelter, of a job as a dishwasher for $6 per hour and the opportunity to sleep inside the restaurant. Some of the homeless are mentally ill. Some may be ashamed of the situation in which they find themselves, and would rather remain anonymous than become an actual face to be pitied...