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...instructed the banks to write off an additional 20% of $2.9 billion in loans made to Argentina and 20% of $11 billion loaned to Brazil. The announcement was unexpected, since both countries have recently achieved some economic gains. Although Brazil has been delinquent on its long-term debt, President Fernando Collor de Mello has launched promising economic reforms since taking office in March. Argentina last month began paying some interest after a two-year halt...
President Fernando Collor de Mello said last week that the government had to "stop Rio from becoming a new Chicago." Local critics suggested that a better comparison might be with Medellin, Colombia...
...campaign for Proposition 111 and its companion Proposition 108 spelled out the spending goals to the last detail. "Our strategy was to explain that this 5 cents a gallon is $5 a month to the average family of four," says assemblyman Richard Katz. "If you live in the San Fernando Valley, that gets you two lanes on the Simi Valley Freeway and an additional lane in each direction on the Ventura Freeway...
...Kennedy School has a mandate "to prepare students to be effective public policymakers in multi-cultural, multi-racial societies," protest organizers Cevette Harper and Fernando Tovar said in a statement released yesterday...
...racial balance has changed dramatically. During my time, Latinos represented about 40% of the school population and 15% district-wide. Now Hispanics, many of them newly arrived and poor, account for 92% of San Fernando's student body; in the district they form 59% of the total, up from just a fifth in 1978. Of the school's 3,000 pupils, nearly half are enrolled in bilingual or English-as-a-second-language classes. "This is very much a port-of-entry school," says Bilingual-ESL Program coordinator Pat Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited...