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During the past few weeks, a number of international economists and bankers have made pilgrimages to Buenos Aires to see the miracle for themselves. "We have profound admiration for the courage and skill with which the government has seized the nettle and acted to curb inflation and to set this country back on the road to growth," World Bank President A.W. Clausen told a group assembled at Argentina's Central Bank last week. David Mulford, Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, declared during a visit last month that Argentina would be an ideal candidate for his government's new Baker...
...officials found the issues in this latest case so clear and the ethical argument for divestment so compelling, that they deemed quick and decisive action imperative. Apartheid may be a subject for equivocation, but surely the University must not condone the legal use of THC by chemotherapy patients to curb nausea...
...move to maintain undergraduate membership on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) came after months during which council members have said President Derek C. Bok has not done enough to curb his influence over the selection of committee members...
...Board tried to curb subsequent protest in a notice printed in the Law School Advisor, the official Law School publication, at the beginning of the academic year...
...join the tax-reform crusade. Under pressure from a horde of special-interest groups that oppose many provisions of the bill, the committee members felt that Reagan and Rostenkowski were trying to railroad them into hasty action. But Rostenkowski finally got things moving last week by agreeing not to curb deductions for state and local taxes. Reagan had wanted to eliminate the deductions completely, and Rostenkowski had favored strict limits on them. These proposals provoked vehement opposition from high-tax states, including California, with its 45 Representatives, and New York, with...