Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the ebb and flow of promises, daily life remains drab for ordinary Bulgarian citizens. Western experts estimate that the standard of living has stagnated or dropped slowly over the past two years; the monthly wage now stands at about $250, compared with $350 for Czechoslovakia. The economy provides adequate supplies of staples but little else. Young people feel especially frustrated at the lack of real reform. Says a 20-year-old Sofia steelworker: "We're all hoping for big changes and new leadership. But we don't expect them soon...
...problem is that a stock-index futures contract is neither commodity nor security. Rather, it is an unusual hybrid, born during the financial-invention boom of the 1980s, that involves taking a position on the future price of a group of stocks, typically the Standard & Poor's 500. The CFTC first won jurisdiction over the instruments in a bitter tussle six years ago, but the SEC has been looking for a chance to gain control over the fast-growing market ever since. Last week the SEC made its move. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, SEC Chairman David Ruder...
...that is based upon ill-founded premises and which proposes an illogical solution. Hsu concludes that because admission rates for Asian-Americans are less than that of their white peers, Harvard is guilty of racial discrimination. Although he admits Harvard has no quota system, Hsu claims that Harvard's standard for admission places the "average" Asian-American applicant at a disadvantage, and thus, indirectly practices racial discrimination. Hsu demands that Harvard eliminate this difference in acceptance rates; if this means developing a new set of admission criterion that would favor the "average" Asian-American applicant at the expense of other...
According to Gorbachev, the Soviets will not demand that Afghanistan be neutral and non-aligned, phrasing that was once standard when Kremlin officials spoke of their neighbor's future...
...first candidate for president to refuse PAC money. There was one question of lesser quality; toward the end of the meeting a certain fellow asked if Gary Hart had ever smoked marijuana. The Senator replied that, as to the implicit character inquiry, for 200 years the standard has been the candidate's ability to govern, and as to the specific question of marijuana, to stentorian applause, the Senator told him, "It's none of your business." Mr. Brazaitis missed this, and indeed seems to draw his "information" more from last May's National Enquirer than this February's New York...