Word: sharings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yard takes the largest share of the chairs--30,000--including the 18,700 which will seat degree candidates and their guests in Tercentenary Theater, Dwyer says. Vying for the coveted seats are more than 22,000 ticket-holders who line up outside the gates of the Yard hours before the ceremony begins...
...proving to be their weakness, due to their misuse of it. The U.S. is overextended with questionable commitments in Panama, historical duties in Western Europe, and the burden of protecting the world's oil supply in the Middle East. As a result, defense spending accounts for a disproportionate share of the skyrocketing budget--$300 billion this year...
...Australians are aware that adding to their share of the U.S. market means holding the line on quality, quantity and cost. In the short run, that may be difficult: owing to disastrously bad weather, the 1987 crop was quite small, which could mean higher prices. Beyond that, the Australians are $ struggling to cope with 7% inflation, which raises the cost of such necessary imports as corks and aging barrels. Nonetheless, predicts Bernard Portet, the French-born winemaker at California's respected Clos du Val vineyard, "they're definitely here to stay." Portet should know: his brother Dominique was a founder...
...maternity leaves, flexible work schedules, part- time jobs. She would like to have time-saving conveniences that most Western women take for granted: electric mixers, cars, supermarkets for one- stop shopping. In many rural areas, the wish list is more fundamental: central heating, running water, sewerage. And everywhere, women share the sentiment expressed by Anna, 28, a language student at Moscow State University: "Soviet women don't want equality. We want more time at home with our children...
...invites herself back to his apartment, only to discover that he really is innocent. She can sleep over, he allows, but he gets to be on top -- the top bunk, that is. Eventually, however, in a subtle and charming scene, Josh learns how a man and a woman can share the same bed, and that adulthood has its own pleasures...