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...that make De Niro's roles almost painful to watch. Duvall keeps it inside, waiting to explode. He is, in a way, almost scarier, because the energy is all potential, temporarily under wraps. The consiglieri of Godfather I and II, the capitalist visionary of Network, and, most of all, Col. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now can never exactly make clear--as De Niro always does--what has gone wrong inside and what that means...
Most economists in San José agree that Carazo, after his inauguration in 1978, unwittingly made everything worse. A politician who craved to be liked, he failed to devalue the colón and establish strict import controls. He continued to subsidize the prices of gasoline, food and imported luxury items. When he could not borrow any more, he printed additional money to pay government employees and avoid unemployment...
When Carazo asked the IMF to lend Costa Rica money for the third time last January, he immediately began to sell dollars on the open market in order to bolster the sinking colón and thereby impress the IMF staff negotiating in San José. The cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like...
Princeton had the best regular season record; Brown staked its claim by winning the Ivy tournament; but Harvard went farthest in the Easterns and was the only Ivy League team to participate in the national tournament in Colorado Springs, Col...
...project will include 17 major buildings housing a medical center, a 4 million-volume library and seven col leges where Saudis will study disciplines ranging from dentistry and engineering to agriculture and marketing. Blount's first task will be to build a mini-city, complete with shopping center and hospital, to support 8,000 construction workers drawn largely from Turkey, Pakistan, Korea and the Philippines...