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Egypt's problems, though, defy easy solution. The per capita income is a meager $469 per year. Its middle class is beset by an acute lack of affordable housing. Industry is virtually stagnant, and productive foreign investment is anemic. The country now imports half of its food. Says Abdel Razak Abdel-Meguid, the American-educated Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs: "Because of our favorable balance of payment statistics, the economy looks good on the outside. But inside it needs a lot of work...
...obstacles facing Egypt may thwart good intentions and a tough executive. The economy will be badly hit because receipts from oil exports, which provided $2.5 billion in foreign currency last year, are tumbling along with the fall-off in world crude prices. Egypt is also beset by a ticking demographic time bomb...
...offenders were quickly released, but their rebellious mood accurately reflected the deteriorating confidence of many Zimbabweans, both black and white, in the 18-month-old Mugabe government. After a euphoric year of independence, Zimbabwe is beset by a variety of serious economic and social problems. Says embattled Finance Minister Enos Nkala: "The leaders of the struggle never promised an instant Garden of Eden. The nation must choose the hard road...
Giamatti said last week that the Advocate article was "very selective" in quoting from his letter to Bush, which he said complained, in general, that the university had been "beset by a tide of federal regulations which burden us with paperwork and subject us to conflicting and...sometimes arbitrary demands...
...this comprehensive and entertaining study, Kansas Journalism Professor David Dary deflates the mythic machismo of the bunkhouse and the open range. His real cowpoke is hardly an existential drifter on the Plains. Rather, he is a common laborer beset by the pressures of a hard life and slim wages...