Word: basic
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...weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
Waller's conclusion that not all U.S. forces will not be set to go until perhaps the middle of February proceeds from some rather basic arithmetic. By last week the U.S. had 280,000 troops in the gulf theater. An additional 150,000 are scheduled to join them. But because the military's transportation systems are overloaded, some ground forces now in Europe and the U.S. are not due in Saudi Arabia until late January. Even if all of them were in place by the U.N.'s cutoff date, it would take two or three weeks to acclimatize...
Christmas films come in two basic shapes: books and toys. The toys -- doll babies like Home Alone and cuddly creatures like Edward Scissorhands -- may mop up at the box office. But prestige is a Hollywood product too; it can be cashed in for Oscars if enough critics and Motion Picture Academy voters are impressed by what they see. So lauded literary properties like Hamlet and The Sheltering Sky become ambitious films. Herewith, three bookish films hoping for a shelf life that extends past New Year...
Just as the auto industry determines the basic health and output of a host of other industries (steel, plastics, rubber), the American entertainment business has become a driving force behind other key segments of the country's economy. As a result of this so-called multiplier effect, the products and profits of dozens of U.S. industries are umbilically tied to American entertainment: fast food, communications technology, sportswear, toys and games, sporting goods, advertising, travel, consumer electronics and so on. And the underlying strength of the American economy, many economists believe, has a lot to do with...
...later, at a mass rally, a brand-new Democratic Party was formed. Its program, organizers said, would call for basic human rights, a mixed-market economy and parliamentary democracy. The fledgling party will now try to sell that program to voters unaccustomed to choice, in time for national elections scheduled for next February...