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To the barricades, comrades! The capitalists at Parker Brothers are launching an attack on the motherland -- a Russian-language version of Monopoly. Although negotiations for the board game's actual introduction into the Soviet Union are still under way, Monopoliia will be unveiled on Oct. 17 at the World Monopoly...
But how should Third World debt be reduced? At the World Bank-IMF meeting, the Japanese presented a general plan. Borrowers would exchange some loans for long-term bonds, unofficially dubbed "junk debt." Interest on those notes would be guaranteed by special funds set up by the IMF, although the...
James Robinson, chairman of American Express, argues for the creation of a new international organization, the Institute of International Debt and Development, or I2D2 for short. (American Express knows something about marketing, after all.) I2D2 would buy Third World loans from commercial banks at a discount in exchange for bonds...
As soon as Baker arrived, there was no question who was the final authority. The former Treasury Secretary, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. presidential campaign since 1976, has become a figure of such stature that there is no counterpart to him in the Democratic Party. Sasso...
Even for all the vice president's talk about his desire to be the education president, his only major education proposal--tax breaks for parents who buy savings bonds to finance their children's college education--is far more modest than the Dukakis plan. The STARS program, higher education officials...