Word: plus
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Nancy is a good pitcher and a good hitter," Reilly said. "Its a great sign that we played well while she was out. Getting her back has got to be a plus for the team. Playing Yale and Brown will be a test of just how far we've come. We're in a much better position now than we were at the start of the year...
...Georgian Helsinki Union has drafted an economic program that attempts to prove that the republic can survive alone. Georgia not only can feed itself but also has sufficient reserves of oil, coal and hydroelectricity to meet its energy needs. Furthermore, the republic boasts mineral deposits plus undeveloped forests, Black Sea beaches and Caucasus mountain peaks. The major drawback for Georgia, argues the document, is that "its energies are constrained by the limits of an economic system imposed from the outside." The union proposes "shock treatment" for one year to build a free market out of the republic's thriving underground...
...made $17 million in the partial year we first took it, pretax. We made $100 million the next year. Then the Feds started helping us run it, so we only made $80 some million in the third year. Their help intensified in '87, and we made about $60-plus million. In '88 they really came in and took us over, and in '89 they completed the confiscation...
General Mikhail Moiseyev, the Chief of the General Staff, puts the number of troops pulling out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia this year at 35,000, plus 30,000 family members. About the same number will leave East Germany and Poland in 1990. Eventually, all the approximately half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries may be withdrawn. "We will bring the troops home," said Moiseyev, "but no one has clearly thought what it will cost. Families will find themselves without apartments or work, children without schools...
...computers figure out that you're not the soft touch they took you for. That's 90 more letters at 20 cents each (not counting name-rental costs), or $18. By sending in $25, you have cost groups to which you are generally sympathetic something like $22 ($18 plus $4) -- on top of the $26 they spent finding you in the first place...