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...believed to be infected with the virus, the national AIDS medical bill is expected to soar to between $4.5 billion and $8.5 billion a year by 1991. Moreover, the demand for outpatient services, nursing homes and housing for AIDS patients is expected to overwhelm health care systems in the hardest-hit cities...
Because of the layoffs and currency shortage, the hardest-hit Panamanians are probably the members of the middle class. To help workers who are unable to cash their paychecks, the government is selling so-called dignity bags of rice, beans and other staples at a discount from regular prices. The crisis has brought relatively little new hardship for the poor, so far. Hereberto Lombaro, 33, says he makes about $20 a day selling fruit-flavored ices from a pushcart. "I don't care what the Americans do," he says, grinning up at the cloudless sky. "As long as it stays...
...many Britons it was like turning back the clock. After behaving meekly for years, British trade unions last week were suddenly flexing their muscles again. Ferry workers, autoworkers, schoolteachers, firemen and nurses all were in the streets. Among the hardest-hit targets was the British subsidiary of Ford of Europe. Nearly all the firm's 32,500 workers at 22 auto plants walked off the job after rejecting a three-year contract that would have provided modest pay increases...
Hamburg officials ordered all cars off the road, while factories in Bremen and other cities were forced to reduce their output. West Berlin was the hardest-hit area. For two days pollution alerts were broadcast hourly on local radio and television stations, and some West Berliners looked like surgeons as they wandered along the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, the city's famed boulevard, wearing antismog masks...
Acrophobia set in at about 1:45 p.m., when sell orders began flitting through the exchange's super-DOT computer circuits in bunches of 1,000 to 2,000 shares each. Among the hardest-hit blue-chip stocks were 3M, which fell 7 1/4, to 126 3/4; Du Pont, which dropped 4, to 95; and Philip Morris, down 1 1/2, to 81. Some traders attributed the rout to the news of a statement by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that a legislative stalemate on banking deregulation could endanger the U.S. banking system...