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...become a champion of debt relief for developing countries. He first gained renown for his advice to Bolivia, which slashed its inflation rate from more than 20,000% in 1985 to 15% today. When Sachs visited Argentina last June, talk-show hosts rushed to schedule interviews. In a single hectic week last month, Sachs was in Peru and Brazil and then jetted to Warsaw, where he advises the new government...
...hectic scene marked the latest and most dramatic stage of a three-way battle that has captured the attention of everyone from billion-dollar money & managers to Hollywood movie directors. At issue before Judge Allen was an effort by Paramount Communications to block Time Inc. from acquiring Warner Communications in a $14 billion friendly merger that would create the world's largest information and entertainment company. If the judge had granted Paramount's motion, which was joined by several major Time shareholders, Paramount could have pressed ahead with its hostile bid to acquire Time for $12 billion. But after...
...women's studies section is better than Harvard Book Store's, and Wordsworth has an amazing children's section. But the atmosphere is hectic, crowded and not at all conducive to hanging out. But the store will usually have what you are looking for, so you don't have to stay forever if you can't bear the crowds...
...most precious commodity to us is time," agree architect Trunzo and his wife Candace, both 41 and parents of two. "We have tried to simplify our lives as much as possible." Candace believes she and her husband are living "better lives than our parents. More hectic. But fuller." James wonders about that. "It's dangerous to use the word fuller. Where is that sense of spirituality that we talked about in the '60s? Where is the time to go up to the mountaintop? Technology is a diversion from life. You can be transfixed. I'm not sure that technology doesn...
...UCLA anthropologist Hammond, "but it's pretty desiccated. You've got to hang around with your kids." Yet hanging-around time is the first thing to go. The very culture of children, of freedom and fantasy and kids teaching kids to play jacks, is collapsing under the weight of hectic family schedules. "Kids understand that they are being cheated out of childhood," says Edward Zigler at Yale. "Eight-year-olds are taking care of three-year-olds. We're seeing depression in children. We never thought we'd see that 35 years ago. There is a sense that adults...