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...crunch could come in May, when Bush will be in need of Senate votes to raise the national debt ceiling above $2.8 trillion. Like a hanging, a hike in the debt ceiling concentrates the mind. The ceiling will not go up, says Johnston, unless the President "comes to us and swallows hard about raising revenues. When he does that, that's when we'll cooperate...
...inhabitants of tiny St. Ignatius, Mont. (pop. 1,000), had a hardscrabble little hospital to tend their more serious wounds and ailments. Then five years ago, the 18-bed Mission Valley Hospital ran into trouble. Spiraling medical costs and difficulty attracting doctors were partly to blame. But the real crunch was that, with new limits on reimbursements, Medicare no longer paid what it cost to treat the hospital's mostly elderly patients...
...business that has felt the crunch has been Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), which provides jobs for hundreds of students each year. Edward J. Larkin '90, manager of HSA's student resources branch, says his office is filling only 10 to 15 percent of all openings, despite an aggressive publicity campaign offering starting salaries as high as $8.25 an hour. However, Larkin says he does not anticipate any long-term trouble in finding students to do moving, cleaning and other chores...
...Western Europe, where air travel increased 8% in 1987 and is expected to jump more than 7% this year, terminals have become mob scenes. At Munich's airport one day this summer, congestion prompted officials to cancel 27 of Lufthansa's 59 domestic flights. A prime cause of the crunch is Europe's fractured air-control system, which is composed of 42 separate civilian control centers, plus additional military jurisdictions...
...stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...