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...comes on the heels of a survey showing Dole with a double-digit lead over Bush in a poll published by the Des Moines Register, while indicating Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt led Illinois Sen. Paul Simon and Dukakis among the Democrats...
These increases have stunned benefits managers, who believed health costs were finally starting to moderate. After all, medical care inflation, which was running at double-digit levels in the early 1980s, was just 5.8% last year. That was not much more than the 4.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index...
...British pound and Italian lira dropped during much of the 1970s, while the West German mark and other Continental currencies rose. Yet at the end of the decade West Germany was enjoying a massive trade surplus and manageable inflation. Britain and Italy, meanwhile, languished under trade deficits and double-digit inflation. Sir James Goldsmith, the British financier, witnessed the process firsthand. Warns he: "Like drugs, devaluation gives you a breather, a small kick. Then it becomes an inflationary merry-go-round to , hell." Only when Britain began pumping large amounts of North Sea oil in the late 1970s...
Fighting recurrent bouts of triple-digit inflation, Brazil has accumulated an unsupportable foreign debt of $110 billion. In February, President Jose Sarney declared that the country would stop making interest payments on its medium- and long-term commercial bank loans, a stunning action that sent shock waves through the international banking community. The financial crisis has forced Brazil to curb imports and go all out on the export front. So far, the results have been unexpectedly impressive. In July alone Brazil achieved a record monthly trade surplus of $1.4 billion. The Brazilians still rely on sales of such basic goods...
...careful to alter his old, not new i.d. The University changes the last digit of replacement bursar's cards and accepts only the most recent number...