Word: result
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...dedicated Joycean and enjoys punning on the master's name ("Shame's Choice"). Despite his fluency in a number of tongues, Rabassa feels most comfortable moving from other languages toward English. "I could take a novel written in the U.S. and turn it into Spanish," he says, "but the result would be terribly flat. My passive vocabulary in Spanish would not be up to the task." Fortunately, as millions of readers have discovered, there is nothing passive about Rabassa's English or flat about the literature to which he has given a new voice...
...Olmos is no impossible dreamer when it comes to Hollywood's new receptivity to Hispanics, which he regards as a direct result of market forces. "The industry is run on economics," Olmos observes. "It knows only one color: green. There's prejudice, sure. But economics makes it go away...
...Ulyanov (who often plays his eponym, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin), cited a now famous letter, printed earlier this year in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, from a Leningrad schoolteacher that criticized glasnost. Ulyanov warned that all too many intellectuals "snapped to attention and waited for the next orders" as a result of its publication, convinced that the period of openness was about to end. Others, unhappy with glasnost, criticized the Soviet press for carrying the campaign too far with its newfound appetite for muckraking. Calling those who produce such fare "princes of extremism," conservative Novelist Yuri Bondarev declared, "Not all newspaper...
When the decision came down last week, however, the result was less clear cut. Four Justices -- Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Stevens -- ruled that the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids capital punishment for any offenders who committed their crimes before reaching 16. Three others -- Rehnquist, Scalia and White -- said the Constitution posed no such barrier. Justice Kennedy did not participate...
...five months of the year. Since January, soybean futures prices have risen from $4.70 per bu. to more than $10, and traders are talking about "beans in the teens" by year's end, which would break the record high of $12.90 reached during a shortage in 1973. As a result, the Department of Agriculture now estimates that food prices will rise between 3% and 5% this year, but those estimates may prove optimistic. John McMillin, an analyst for the investment firm Prudential-Bache, foresees a possible double-digit increase in food prices during...