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...juries last month, President Eric Arturo Delvalle sacked him as head of the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces; the general simply turned around and had the National Assembly dump Delvalle, replacing him with Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma. Now Noriega faces a stiffer test: a rapidly worsening cash crunch that began two weeks ago, when the U.S. froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in U.S. banks...
...about malevolent new designer viruses escaping from laboratories and running wild. And the Big Bang theory of the universe's origin suggests two possible conclusions, both of them unpleasant: infinite expansion, with a concurrent dispersal of heat and an annihilating deep freeze; or eventual contraction and a horrendous Big Crunch...
...study cites lagging income growth, high real interest rates and sharp inflation in the late 1970s as major causes of the housing crunch...
...groups hit the hardest by the housing crunch are low-income and young households, the report says. Apgar said two million young households "would own a home today if the home ownership rates did not decline so sharply since 1980." Rent costs have also increased, rising at a rate 14 percent higher than other prices since 1981, according to the report...
...extent of the Gonzaga art treasures was revealed in the mid-17th | century, a period marking the clan's decline. Smelling a credit crunch, dealers alighted in Mantua to bargain for works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Veronese and Van Dyke. Simon estimates that 700 paintings by these and other masters were sold, and eventually found various ways into the world's museums. One immovable prize was the Gonzaga pleasure palace at Te, the walls and ceilings of which bloomed with mural paintings that were forerunners of the mannerist style...