Word: beltings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faces. FitzGerald and Haughey have each served as Prime Minister twice. Nearly 20% of the country's workers are unemployed, taxes are the most onerous in Western Europe, and the national debt is a staggering $33 billion. While FitzGerald and his Fine Gael (Family of Irish) party called for belt tightening, Haughey used the gift of gab, refusing to commit himself to cuts and promising vaguely to stimulate growth. Nonetheless, Haughey, the strong front runner throughout the four-week campaign, stressed that coalition governments are weak and entreated voters to give him a strong majority...
...Mexico, students at Mexico City's sprawling National Autonomous University (enrollment: about 400,000) share many of the same concerns with their French and Spanish counterparts. Last April newly appointed Rector Dr. Jorge Carpizo McGregor warned that government belt tightening would require an end to U.N.A.M.'s open admissions policy and a hike in tuition. Last week protests from Mexican students forced Carpizo to back down...
...finance officials seemed to think that worldwide crude prices had finally settled at a mutually agreeable level. The current price still provides consumers with relatively cheap energy but is less likely than $10 a bbl. to create economic disaster for oil-producing countries and the U.S. energy belt. One sign that the current price may stick: four major U.S. oil companies reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia last week to buy crude at nearly $18 a bbl. for at least the next five months...
...first cases of AIDS arose among African prostitutes in the late 1970s, at about the same time it first appeared among Americans and Haitians. The disease has now spread to some 30 African countries, mostly in the so-called AIDS belt -- the string of central and east African countries that include Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zambia. Medical researchers caution that most AIDS studies done so far in Africa are spotty and preliminary. But none doubt that AIDS is both widespread and running out of control...
...same way it has among homosexuals in the U.S.: through sex with multiple partners. Surveys of African AIDS patients in Rwanda and Belgium found they had had an average of 32 sex partners. Huge reservoirs of infection exist along trade routes connecting the hard-hit countries of the AIDS belt. "In the epicenter," says Belgian Microbiologist Peter Piot, "15% to 25% of the adult population is affected. That's really mind blowing...