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...hangover from past inflation is also keeping many people away from shopping. Although consumer prices have been increasing at an annual rate of less than 2% since the beginning of the year, many people still do not believe that the inflationary fever that raged during much of the 1970s has subsided. Says Kay Cooper, a receptionist in a Manhattan optometrist's office: "I don't see inflation coming down at all. It still costs a fortune just to use the subway and the bus." Adds New York Businessman Alfred Sandberg: "You feel that...
...practice a "blatant double standard" in selling products to poorer nations. Side-effect warnings that are disclosed in drug reference books in industrialized nations are sometimes left out of guides used in underdeveloped lands. Products that are outlawed or severely restricted in the Western world-clioquinol and aminopyrine, a fever and pain remedy linked to a serious blood ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other products, including vitamins and "tonics," are promoted as cures...
...Papal fever, in any case, had begun to overshadow political fervor for many Argentines in the hours before the Pope's arrival. The patriotic euphoria of the early weeks of the war was all but submerged in a vast national outpouring of piety and sheer excitement over the Pope's visit, the first ever made by a Pontiff to Argentina...
American businessmen traveling to Lagos should prepare by getting more than just a passport and a yellow-fever shot. These days, they should also bring along an unlimited expense account or a stash of cash. Reason: the capital of Nigeria is now the world's most expensive city, according to Business International, a New York consulting firm. Indeed, with such eye-opening price tags as $156.25 for a hotel room, $625 a week for car rental, $48.88 for a meal for one and $350 for a night on the town with three clients, a businessman's expense statement...
...world. From "the movement's" failure to change the world, there comes the settling, if sorrowful, idea that all will never be right in the world. Some spark of political consciousness remains-every year of our stay has witnessed at least one sizable demonstration. But none of the fever-of the frenzied idea that something must be done, can be done, should be done - lingers. The apathy Times and News week point to stems less from the assured sense that nothing ins wrong than from the hopeless notion that nothing can be made right...