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...today because of Washington's problems. TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman reports that Congress will probably set up an independent financial review board to oversee city spending. She says Barry planted the seeds for the crisis years ago by building a huge bureaucracy, with more full-time employees per capita than any of the 50 states...
...awarding contracts on a no-bid basis. By the time his third term ended with an arrest for cocaine possession, the city was barreling toward financial disaster. When Sharon Pratt Kelly took over in 1991, she inherited a $300 million deficit, and the city had a higher per-capita expenditure than any other American city--$9,516. She did little to improve the situation...
...Surgeon General's campaign against cigarettes also seems to have contributed to the bulging of America. Millions of people have given up smoking, driving annual per capita cigarette consumption by adults from its peak of 4,345 in 1963 to 2,493 last year, according to the American Health Foundation. And when people quit smoking, they usually gain weight -- 4 to 6 lbs. on average. But health officials are quick to point out that while those extra pounds may harm your health, cigarettes are even more damaging. Most doctors advise patients that a bit of additional weight is a small...
...successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas got foreign-debt payments down to a fraction of the annual budget and performed the ultimate miracle of lowering Mexico's inflation rate from 157% to less than 10% by last year. By 1989 the gross domestic product was growing again in per capita terms. A debt-reduction agreement the next year started foreign money flowing back in, especially from the U.S. With the passage of NAFTA, which made Mexico's prospects brighter still, the money continued to pour...
...Massachusetts has the highest number of charities per capita in the nation and Cambridge has the largest number of charities in the state," says Sudholz, the business association director. "You're talking about a community that's extremely socially conscientious...