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...Channel a greater portion of financial assistance through international agencies, such as the World Bank, which would provide fiscal supervision of projects and also defuse criticism by the poor that the aid is politically motivated. The bank, in fact, is already a major source of development money; this year it has committed $1.5 billion in low-interest loans...
...Administration is already helping by allotting more than half of this year's Energy Research and Development Administration's $2.7 billion budget to nuclear power research. It has also proposed a new Energy Independence Authority, which would channel $100 billion from the capital markets to private companies developing domestic energy resources, including nukes (TIME, Oct. 6). Another Administration bill, now being drafted, would allow utilities for the first time to include the cost of building power plants in their current rates for electricity - in effect charging today's customers for tomorrow's power...
...Claus B. Bahnson, family therapist and professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Med ical College, heart attacks tend to occur in "outer-directed" families-those that stress the need for success and approval by outsiders. Cancer tends to appear in "inner-directed" families. Such families often channel their emotional response to stress internally through the nervous system. This inward surge may upset the body's hormonal balance and, perhaps, immunological processes-two mechanisms that play a significant role in combating cancer...
...Even though it has been outlawed and is forced underground, there is no doubt the BNP will play a prominent role in the uncertain future of the Basques in Spain. Should the post-France government liberalize its policy towards Basques, legalization of the BNP would be one way to channel political steam that might otherwise pour into the radical activities of the Nationalist Party's illegitimate offspring, ETA, "Basque Country and Freedom...
...possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into the PCE protects the party from bureaucratic rigidity...