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...keep more than 300,000 troops in Western Europe, at a cost of $342 million per day, 37 million Americans are shunted out of the medical care market for lack of insurance. While the Pentagon loses untold billions to waste and fraud, the U.S. shares with South Africa the dubious distinction of being the only advanced captialist countries without some national health plan...
...risk corporate instruments. But those loans now make up uncomfortably close to 70% of assets. Today both sides of the credit equation are less willing to take a chance: the debtor doubts that the money he borrows to invest will pay off in higher profits, while the lender is dubious about the borrower's ability to repay...
...promises. Last week Haiti lay in the grip of "a state of siege" declared by Avril's government and launched by his 1,200-man Presidential Guard. Citing "an increase of violence," the regime claimed that the crackdown was necessary to "protect the democratic accomplishments against terrorism." In dubious pursuit of that goal, Avril's police and some members of his army embarked upon a frightening expedition, beating up critics of the regime, silencing the media and sweeping up political opponents -- jailing some, exiling others...
...yeah, the full-court press. Its effectiveness has been dubious this season. But for a lumbering team like Dartmouth, it can wreck havoc. The Big Green has a tendency, in the words of James, "to fold under pressure...
...order to believe the Soviet Union is capable of waging and quite possibly winning a war against the West, one has to accept as gospel a hoary and dubious cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of two institutions -- the armed forces and the KGB. A Kremlin that cannot put food on its people's tables can put an SS-18 warhead on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota, some 5,000 miles away. Even though 15% to 20% of the grain harvested on the collective...