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...past, campus unity has been lacking, but "an event like this can bolster that," said Richard B. Cooperstein '88, a council member who helped organize the $2100 bash...
...FSLIC now has $1.5 billion in cash, down from $4.6 billion at the end of 1985. That decline is sure to fuel congressional efforts to bolster the federal insurer's reserves. A bill that would provide the Government agency with $12.5 billion during the next two years could pass the Senate as early as this week, and the House is working on similar legislation...
Short of U.S. military intervention, the only alternative to supporting a guerrilla action is to bolster the diplomatic efforts that were part of the contra policy. Moderates in Congress claim the Administration has done little to advance the negotiations. Democratic Congressman Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, a past supporter of contra aid, voted for the moratorium because of what he described as "ineptitude" on the diplomatic front. "There has been a complete undermining" of the negotiating process, he says. "What they've done is harden people like me who could have been friendly...
...While Mexico's reserves should last well into the 21st century, its production is expected to stay flat for the next few years. Because of the shaky state of the Mexican economy, Pemex, the state-owned oil company, will probably be unable to make the investments needed to bolster oil production...
...part and parcel of an aggressive U.S. posture toward some of its closest economic partners. Coming at a time when the air is already thick with international trade recriminations, the new thrust carries a major risk: that it will do less to alter the commercial balance than to bolster the increasingly strong protectionist forces that threaten to gnaw away at world economic growth...