Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, Rosenberg's suggested minimum rent for a four-room heated apartment is $336. SPOA members used two methodologies to calculate an appropriate minimum rent, and came up with figures of $502 and $720 for the same unit, the report states...
...investigators of other crimes, who are running into dead ends when they try to identify the players in fraud cases. Beverly Hills police are stymied by last August's Mob-style assassination of Hollywood entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty, who were shotgunned in the front room of their mansion. Menendez had been an executive and director of Carolco Pictures, an independent movie company that produced Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies, and police have been unable to unravel his business affairs or identify all his partners. Carolco is controlled by a Netherlands holding company that is, in turn...
Journalists usually go about their jobs by chasing down rumors and interviewing sources. Sometimes, though, reporters learn a lot by gathering experts in one room and firing questions at them. If the mix of guests is right and the topic intriguing enough, the conversation can be as exciting to cover as a revolution or a natural disaster. In fact, revolutions and nature were on the agendas of two TIME-sponsored conferences that we report on in this week's issue...
...owned to free- market economy. "Nobody knows how to do it," he said, including Gorbachev, whose government lacks "conceptual ideas and clarity about what to do." Migranyan said the short-term remedy was either food or force. As long as there was sausage in the shops, the government had room for maneuver, but the sausage was running short, so perhaps it was time "to limit democracy in a period of autocratic rule...
...outcomes were possible, Migranyan suggested: Gorbachev might become more authoritarian, "crushing all obstacles and imposing economic reforms," or a conservative regime might emerge that would jettison him along with his political and social reforms, even while seeking to modernize the economy. With Gorbachev's room for maneuver shrinking, Migranyan said, "maybe we need an authoritarian period of development . . . if democracy prevents market mechanisms from developing...