Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first test case for the Brady plan is appropriately Mexico, whose economic distress is fully matched both by its strategic significance to the U.S. and by the avowed commitment of its leadership to reform. Mexico has drastically cut spending and started selling inefficient state enterprises. Still, the economy is stagnant. No wonder. The equivalent of about $13 billion a year that might otherwise go to internal investment or the purchase of imports is being siphoned off to service Mexico's nearly $100 billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been...
...barely bruised. Her husband, seated beside her, and two passengers in the row behind her were dead. Along with most passengers in the rows near the wing, a handful of those at the rear were also alive. The three-man cockpit crew had to be cut free of the tangled and wrecked flight deck, but all survived. Of the eight attendants, only one died...
...soon as I'm off MTV. I'm glad." That kind of confidence can come not only from satisfaction in his work but also from a sense that the work has paid off. Out just a month ago, the new album has already gone gold: the title cut, released as a single, sounds similarly hit-bound. It is a ravishing love song, slightly world-weary and bracingly off-center, nostalgic for better loves and wiser times...
...demands of the corporation as well. "They're asking physicians to pay for their decisions," says internist Madeleine Neems in Lake Bluff, Ill. "That's a terrible concept. When you analyze whether or not a patient needs an expensive test, a lot of times it's not a clear-cut yes or no. I don't want my finances tied into those decisions...
...their moral values by mobilization of social opprobrium. That, rather than specific legislation, is what changed the treatment of minorities in films and TV over recent years. One can now draw opprobrious attention by gay bashing, as the Beastie Boys rock group found when their distributor told them to cut out remarks about "fags" for business reasons. Or by anti-Semitism, as the just disbanded rap group Public Enemy has discovered...