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Because juvenile execution evokes such strongly conflicting values, it greatly intensifies the moral import of the debate over capital punishment. To borrow the cliche, it "raises the stakes...
According to Diener, the hospital would obtain $11 million in equity and be able to borrow $35 million for capital improvements under the arrangement. In addition, the agreement would provide McLean with as much as $2.5 million annually from business ventures...
...song could change to Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen if the Administration and Congress fail to deal effectively with a pair of megaproblems: the budget and trade deficits. Government borrowing to cover the budget shortfall could eventually send interest rates shooting back up. Also, the trade deficit could boost interest rates because the U.S. may be forced to borrow more and more money from abroad to finance imports. Heller observed that the Government's record in attacking the twin deficits has so far been "somewhere between lackluster and lousy, but 1986 really looks like a turnaround year...
...biggest casualty of dropping prices will be Mexico, which owes foreign creditors $96 billion and earns about 70% of its export income from oil. Mexican financial officials told creditor banks only last December that the country would need to borrow an additional $4 billion to stay abreast of its payments during 1986. But declining oil prices changed that estimate almost overnight. When Mexican government officials met again with bankers last week in New York, their projected borrowing needs had increased to $9 billion...
...hostage in this Capitol Hill crisis is the federal debt limit, which constrains the Government's ability to borrow. Ironically, a debt limit was created by Congress in 1947 to put a "permanent" $275 billion cap on federal overspending. Congress has been raising it ever since...