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...rancorous three-day meeting in Washington earlier this month, the World Bank's 33 wealthiest member nations agreed to donate only $9 billion over the next three years to the International Development Association (IDA), an agency of the bank that makes interest-free loans to more than 40 of the world's poorest nations. The amount, which represents a reduction of 25% from 1983 levels, is $7 billion less than the $16 billion requested by the bank's management...
...report challenged criticism that the IDA was, as Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma had put it, "a giant worldwide welfare program." But it nonetheless recommended that...
...want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...
...building is named after Deutschman's parents, Samuel and Ida Gelfand...
...Gelfands' achievements were particularly "miraculous," said Holdhaber, in light of the severe oppression of Jews in turn of the-century Russia Goldhaber read from Ida Gelfand's memoirs, which describe the hardships the Gelfands, both Jewish, had endured on the way to receiving their dental licenses...