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...same time, the Buenos Aires government announced a series of austerity measures designed to bolster the country's wartime economy during a prolonged conflict. The Argentine peso was devalued by 17% to boost exports, while a 7% tax was announced on important goods sold abroad, to help pay for the war effort. Additional taxes went into effect for gasoline, cigarettes and liquor...
Encouraged and trained by the local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert...
...believe it to be, of maintaining a huge endowment while accepting millions more in federal gifts. Not a word about how more and more incoming freshmen are being admitted on the condition that they live off campus. Not a word, most importantly, about why the federal government should bolster students who want to go to this institution--about why Harvard University deserves support...
...became clear that the Law School wasn't going to rescind its invitation to Abu-Loghod. Some 150 people protested outside the building an which she spoke, some loudly criticizing the PLO's tacties not Abu-Loghod's right to speak. That shows of strength probably did more to bolster the students position than excluding the rival speaker...
...chance. But in a timely and trenchant new book. Greed Is Not Enough: Reaganomics. CCNY economist Robert Lekachman slows that the Presidents program has already done harm enough to the American economy. With devastating wit and pungency. Lekachman provides a handbook of common sense and technical arguments to bolster the faith of anyone who has sensed all along that Reagan is crazy...