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...resounding phrases sounded gloriously libertarian four years ago. But by last week French President Fracçois Mitterrand must surely have regretted the words he spoke as an opposition leader in 1979. In an effort to help cure an increasingly ailing economy, his government had laid a heavy official hand on one of the most hallowed of French traditions, the vacation...
...cure the country's fiscal woes, Kohl has promised a program of cutting business taxes and nibbling away at West Germany's entrenched welfare system. The cost of social programs has grown exponentially, from $15 billion in 1960 to more than $250 billion in 1982. In a near stagnant economy, the problem is becoming worse. In 1981, for example, when 1.27 million West Germans were unemployed, the federal government paid out nearly $6.7 billion in various jobless benefits. Last year the total was around $9.7 billion. Similarly, in 1970 West Germany paid out about $48 billion, or more...
...tool to hide mistakes. Managers ordered tens of thousands of cars built so that they could boost production figures, as well as their bonuses. Most of the vehicles were eventually sold to dealers at cut-rate prices, often after months of outdoor storage had taken their toll. lacocca's cure for Chrysler's peculiar addiction to production mandates was to kill the sales bank. The company took some heavy losses to sell off its backlog of inventory, but once the last car was gone, Chrysler stopped making cars on speculation...
Calligraphy may be the cure for sloppy handwriting...
...fact, Sagan's whole outlook on life and love seems to have changed. Love in her previous novels appeared as perfect yet infinitely elusive, a cure-all which could not be temporary. Now, now-ever, love does triumph, at least for two of the characters, and lasting happiness appears attainable. This is refreshing, yet somehow forced. Sagan has been criticized in the past for taking on too pessimistic a view of life and love, and now seems too eager to refute the charge...