Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After news of the aborted bust leaked to the press, Barry held a series of self-pitying press conferences, blaming the press and political opponents for his problems. "There are lingering questions I'll never be able to convince a lot of people of," Barry said with a shrug. "They don't understand my complex, I suppose, personality." He added to the confusion by first offering to take a drug test "if it will help matters," then waffling on the offer...
...debtor discontent. Crippled by stagnant growth and a combined foreign debt of more than $400 billion, Latin American governments are finding it increasingly unacceptable to shoulder interest payments for loans that only push them deeper into the red. Yet the banks that made the loans, many of them privately held U.S. institutions, have come up with few acceptable solutions...
Perhaps the most unusual proposal to date comes from a Peruvian economist, who has suggested swapping debt for the creation of an antidrug fund. Under the scheme, debts held by overseas commercial banks would be handed over to the central bank of the debtor. The commercial banks would be able to write off the debt as a loss and donation for tax purposes, while the debtor country would put a percentage of the debt into a local currency deposit. The interest would be directed into an antidrug fund for financing crop substitution and other development projects in areas where cocaine...
...private support for his cause. "Being able to fail is a key to the volunteer process," he adds now. "In their jobs, people aren't allowed to do that. The real joy of being a volunteer is the freedom to express yourself without fear that it will be held against...
After being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week. The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza. Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies, which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity...