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...problems by adopting austerity measures and paying off their staggering loans. As a result, such countries as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina were required to adopt tough economic policies that ran the risk of setting off severe social unrest. The new U.S. approach recognizes that borrowers will remain at the brink of collapse unless they can rev up their economic growth. Said IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere: "The debtor countries must grow out of debt." To do so, they will need even more cash infusions. The plan that Baker outlined calls for a three-year lending increase of $29 billion...
...August 5, the seven were found guilty of the weapons charges, but acquitted of conspiring to commit armed robberies and to free two radicals serving prison sentences involving a 1981 Brink's armored-car robbery in Rockland County, N.Y. Two policemen and a guard were killed in the robbery...
Often, teachers have lower expectations for girls in the area of science. Parents are generally more willing to send boys to computer camp than girls--only 8 percent of the children at computer camps are female--and professors are frequently reluctant to act as mentors to young women, Brink said...
Despite the obstacles in their path, Brink said, women should not be deterred from careers in science. "Science and the joy of science always, always overcome the difficulties. I don't want women to be alarmed at the existence of sexism in the scientific community. I just want them to be aware...
...least one student in the audience challenged Brink's premise, however. She said that her experience in the Mathematics Department contradicted the picture of sexism, adding that graduate students and instructors had always given her support...