Word: flows
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...million in 1982 to $1.5 billion this year, but has neglected efforts to reduce the demand for drugs. The federal budget for drug treatment and prevention has actually declined, from $200 million in 1982 to $126 million this year. Somewhat belatedly Reagan seems to have realized that the flow of drugs will abate only when the U.S. curbs its persistent craving. What since 1984 had been the personal cause of First Lady Nancy Reagan -- getting young people to "Just Say No" to drugs -- finally became a top item on the President's own political and public agenda. Promising a massive...
Since 1980, farmers have struggled against shrinking markets, debts, tumbling land values and overproduction. Farmers in the Southeast have been robbed of their thin cash flow by capricious weather. Elsewhere, America's gigantic agricultural machine heaps up more grain and fiber than the world can digest. U.S. taxpayers foot the bill...
Last year, after thousands of Sri Lankans entered West Germany through East Berlin, Bonn granted East Germany some $293 million in credits, and the flow subsided. Even as the Chancellor hopes to slow the influx of non-Germans, he wants to do nothing to discourage East Germans from seeking freedom in the West...
...American autoworkers view their jobs. The 3,263 workers at the plant are divided into only two job classifications -- assembly and maintenance -- compared with as many as 100 in some unionized U.S. factories. This leaves Honda workers free to perform many different functions, as dictated by the ebb and flow of the assembly line. While their $12.25 hourly wage is about $1 below the United Auto Workers average, employees and their families enjoy unusual benefits, including access to the company's gym and pool...
...Mexico forcefully rejects any attempt to violate its sovereignty in the pursuit of narcotics traffickers," said Senate Leader Antonio Riva Palacio. In practice, however, American drug agents seem unlikely to leave Mexico, where they have operated since the 1930s. The U.S. needs Mexican help in fighting the incoming flow of drugs, and Mexico needs the goodwill of its northern neighbor to cope with the Latin American country's $98 billion foreign debt. "It's a marriage without divorce," says one U.S. policymaker, of relations between the uneasy neighbors. "That's why we have to find a way to work things...