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...talk will be needed to overhaul the economy. A World Bank report shows that state subsidies in Poland have grown alarmingly in recent years, and now amount to 30% of budget expenditures. To continue the supports is to risk bankruptcy. Yet removing them could create just the sort of hardship that provoked violent unrest in the past, leading to the downfall of governments in 1956, 1970 and again in 1980, the year Solidarity was born...
...offer for her to become 60 Minutes' first female correspondent. Joining the old-boy network of Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley was not easy, and reviews of her performance were mixed. Producers found her, as usual, to be a trouper -- willing to go anywhere, endure any hardship for a story. "She has a lot of cold blood," says producer Anne de Boismilon. "You can never feel fear coming from her." Others, however, grew impatient with her for endlessly tinkering with stories. "She could drive a producer crazy fixing, then fixing again and again," says one source. "What...
Although the cleaning bill has slashed Exxon's second-quarter profits from $1 billion to $160 million, the world's largest oil company has so far suffered no serious financial hardship. Even so, warns Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for PaineWebber, "I think this could be only the tip of the iceberg...
That attitude was nourished practically from the moment Violeta was born, on Oct. 18, 1929, in the southern Nicaraguan town of Rivas, near the border with Costa Rica. Her father, a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher, sent his seven children abroad to school. Their idea of hardship was bathing in a cold lake at their country cottage. Acute social injustice consisted of being invited to two cotillions on the same evening. When Violeta was 19, she was introduced to an intense-looking young man from Managua whose family owned La Prensa. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro inspected Violeta's deeply sunned face...
...created to represent, even at the peak of anti-ROTC sentiment. The Crimson's editorial on the issue, in conjunction with the numerous dissents by its editors that accompanied it, reflected the honest confusion and disagreement of many students on campus, all concerned by the same questions of financial hardship, U.S. foreign policy, discrimination within the military, academic freedom and freedom of choice. The Crimson's coverage was, for the most part, thorough and interesting. I ask only that it work harder to assure a level of accuracy appropriate to a newspaper of its great tradition and prestige. Joel...