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Worldwide efforts to contain and cure AIDS are making progress, but if nations do not act together to stop its spread in the Third World, as much as 60 percent of poor nations' populations could become infected, experts said at a conference this week...
...Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968). On occasion, Huntington has extended this argument to the United States, suggesting that a little less "excess of democracy" would cure the distemper of the American body politic. Huntington, "The United States," in Michael Crozier, Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy (New York: New York University Press...
Blueprint 2000 is no "cure-all" for the state's problems, said Murphy's policy director, Christopher Scott, "but we can offer recommendations to solve them--we want to avoid trade-offs between health care and education...
Encourage consumers to save. If Americans increased their savings rate (only 4% of disposable income last year, vs. nearly 17% in Japan), they would spend less money on foreign imports and help cure the trade deficit. Moreover, an expansion of America's paltry savings pool would help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign financing. One proposal for bringing that about: a progressive consumption tax. This kind of levy would work like a national sales tax, but be progressive in the sense that it would exempt necessities (food, housing, medicine, clothing) to avoid putting an undue burden on low-income citizens. Former...
...failed to improve as much as investors had hoped: the imbalance between imports and exports fell from the record $16.5 billion in July, but only to $15.7 billion in August. Investors concluded that if a 30% drop in the dollar over the past two years has failed to help cure U.S. trade problems, then perhaps the currency would have to fall further. And any greater drop, they reasoned, would surely aggravate U.S. inflation and interest rates...