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Economic integration of East Germany into the European Community is also impossible in the short run, we learn. Citizens in West Germany are already beginning to grumble over the housing crunch and economic drain induced by the Eastern immigrants...
...wasn't very successful. The game was on the line. This blond guy with the drawl turned the ball over three times. I shook my head in disgust and prepared to leave, two months of research down the drain...
...things that got me hooked into this is that I was a legislator for many years and amassed a large number of services for helping people at many levels," he says. "And I have seen in effect that legislation go down the drain because people lost faith in the government of Massachusetts so that they are not willing to fund those services...
...California, where America's tax revolt began in 1978 with Proposition 13 rolling back property levies, will have to consider a tax boost. The state has begun payments out of a $1 billion emergency fund, but Governor George Deukmejian does not intend to drain that fund, and even if he did, more would be required. The Governor is expected to call the state legislature into special session in another week or so to decide how much more relief is needed and how to pay for it. It is hard to see how any significant amount could be made available without...
Rather than fearing that the crisis in California will drain resources they need for their own recovery, some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced their determination to restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake...