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Yavlinsky's statement that Russia's 100 largest companies contribute 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product while employing only three percent of the population prompted Pipes to question whether Russia can achieve a free-market system without drastic economic reform...
Then one day he didn't come. "Where is my mocha?" grumbled one electrician and grip after another, intimidating tools dangling off their belts. The drastic announcement was made. In a cost-cutting measure, the Mocha Man would come only three times a week. The crew, faced with a question of survival, took matters into their own hands...
...what do we do about it? Reformers like Common Cause call for drastic changes, such as free TV time for candidates who agree to limit their spending and public financing of campaigns. These are good ideas, if you are willing to gut the Bill of Rights and make the First Amendment read, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech except in the case of political participation...
...that entry into the monetary union will be judged by other standards. In a final bid for votes last week, Juppe said when it comes time next spring to pick the members of the euro club, "the decision will be a political one." Translation: Paris will stop drastic budget cutting, and Italy is probably going to get in. Since the Socialists take similar positions, that is likely to be true whoever is running the government...
...Wall Street ethos of the '80s was the other cause of drastic tuition increases. Scholars refer to it as the "Chivas Regal effect...