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...fact, the former MP from Meriden, England (just east of Birmingham) has only one semester of teaching experience under big belt. For the last 30 years, he's been spending his time in academic research, journalism, and Parliament, moving from one to the next...
...public spending. But President Raul Alfonsin, installed in December after eight years of military rule, feared that too much austerity would cause civil unrest, possibly toppling his fragile democratic regime. The government drafted a letter of intent in June in which it said it would try to tighten its belt, but that was not enough for the IMF, which wanted more concrete austerity plans. It rejected Argentina's as inconsistent and unworkable...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
...instance, was Minister of the Presidency Fernando Berrocal Soto, whose reported role in winning government loans for a brother-in-law drew angry mutterings from other hard-pressed businessmen. Shortly before the resignations, Costa Rica asked for a two-week extension on an Aug. 15 deadline to comply with belt-tightening reforms requested by the International Monetary Fund. Monge is especially worried by the growing disenchantment of Costa Rica's middle class, whose standard of living has steadily declined since...
While many of the positions eliminated in last years belt-tightening have not been reinstated. Murphy said the school has not implemented a complete hiring freeze and is continuing to expand slowly...