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Today she is covered by Harvard's domesticpartner benefits program. Her migraines recur onlyonce a month thanks to biofeedback therapy and newglasses, which she could not afford without theplan...
These farms are part of large-scale agribusiness companies and are a far cry from the idealized picture of "family-owned-and-operated" farms. They can afford to sacrifice profits on a season's crops, destroying the workplace to eliminate the union along with it. These farms later move their operations to neighboring fields and worker activists are "permanently" replaced...
...series of summits, Gorbachev and Reagan brought about a de-escalation of the arms race, which the Soviet leader realized was swallowing more resources than he could afford. The European satellites were too, so Gorbachev told their chiefs that Soviet tanks would no longer keep them in power. That started a chain reaction that left both sides dumbfounded. By the end of 1989, the Soviet bloc had dissolved: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Romania all installed noncommunist regimes. Even then, nobody would have guessed that in another two years the Soviet Union itself would shatter into 15 pieces...
...like Suharto, who is about to have himself selected to his seventh five-year term, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto can ill afford to offend political cronies. Hashimoto vowed last year to slash Japan's outsize budget deficit, which would rule out any substantial stimulus package. Yet without a healthy Japan to buy their exports, other Asian countries will find it even harder to resume the prosperity they once enjoyed. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise." --Jan. 7, 1966, from Man of the Year profile of General William Westmoreland...