Word: helped
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...deal of money to protect themselves from their fans. Gavin de Becker, who operates a 100-client security service in Los Angeles, charges those who request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold...
...Bush Administration has worked out a formula to help ease the burden on some borrowers while maintaining the confidence, and therefore the cooperation, of lenders. Announced by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March and endorsed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as at the economic summit in Paris last week, the plan calls for "reducing" -- in fact, forgiving -- some principal and interest, thus freeing borrowers' resources for growth. The banks end up holding IOUs that have a lower face value but a higher chance of being repaid. The increased prospect of the debtor nations' economic...
...which threatens to wipe out the benefits that Nick Brady has made possible." Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit is provoking protectionism, which would make it harder for developing countries to work off their debts by exporting their products to a key market. If the U.S. is really going to help, debt reduction must begin at home. Otherwise, the promise of the Brady plan -- along with much of the rest of America's influence abroad -- will be squandered. That, truly, would be unforgivable...
...slightest creek becomes Charlie Manson revisted, and I can't help but picture my obituary, two lines in The Boston Globe, describing the early demise of a Harvard junior. "If only she had lived with her friends in an apartment, where she would never have been alone" they would be claiming about my folly...
...possible by foreign governments. The Soviets, Europeans and Japanese all have active space programs, and duplication of efforts will increasingly be seen as an unnecessary waste. Many countries are interested in participating in the Freedom project or Mission to Planet Earth or both, and the Soviets have accepted international help on their Mars probes...