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...Land in 1991, dedicated to the proposition that Homo Eightitatus was an obnoxious, Mammon-worshipping egotist. In Regarding Henry, it took a bullet in the head to turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook, it took a trip to Never-Never Land to cure the 80s corporate raider of his careerist monomania. In Life Stinks, the 80s millionaire didn't know what he had until he literally lost everything...
...little known to the demonstrators. He is Jeffrey Sachs, 37, a Harvard professor who in the past seven years has emerged as the world's expert on how countries can move from controlled to free economies. Governments from Bolivia to Mongolia have called in Sachs to help them cure hyperinflation and to bring their economies back from the brink of disaster...
...have diametrically opposed views of how to cure the Russian economy. While the economist draws on his experience in Bolivia and Poland to urge radical reforms, the dentist draws on his work on New York City welfare programs to say the Russians must go slow...
Miyazawa, fearful of adding to growing anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S., did not want to send Bush home empty-handed. But the bargain struck in Tokyo will do little to cure the recession, create new jobs, or narrow the $41 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan over the long term. Under pressure to open their markets, the Japanese agreed in the final hours of Bush's tour to find ways to buy more American cars, auto parts, computers, glass and paper. Some of these concessions were in the works long before Bush arrived; others sounded good, but were less...
...sure, Byrd's motive is to help his state. And there is something less than perfect about a political system that decides where to locate the FBI's division of fingerprinting based on the vagaries of the congressional seniority system. (Whether term limits would cure this defect is another question. Although Byrd has been in the Senate for 33 years, he has only been Appropriations chairman for three). But, perhaps by coincidence, West Virginia is -- from an anti-Washington perspective -- probably the ideal place for the Federal Government to seep away to. Economically and culturally, if not geographically...