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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efficacy of our policies. Even though the public generally regards the "War on Drugs" and other counternarcotics efforts as positive solutions to the U.S.'s drug woes, our international drug strategy of the past decade has fallen flat on its face. Coletta Youngers of the Washington Office on Latin America has written that "U.S. taxpayers have provided nearly $290 billion for the war on drugs, yet cocaine and heroine are more readily available, and at cheaper prices, than ever before...
This is confirmed by even the most conservative estimates of drug use, production and trafficking: the State Department estimates that cocaine production throughout Latin America has increased by 11.7 percent since 1988, and opium production has doubled, even though U.S. government funding for anti-drug efforts has increased by more than 150 percent...
...time when Washington should be reevaluating its international drug strategies, our leaders, spurred by electoral incentives and misguided intentions, are only worsening our problems. Brendan G. Conway '00, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Leverett House and a certificate candidate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...first time in nearly three decades without spurring inflation. The U.S. growth rate, while down from its feverish 5.5% in the first quarter, is still expected to register 2%-plus for the rest of the year. The only skunk at this picnic is the Asian, Russian and Latin financial crisis, estimated to have knocked about 2.5 percentage points off second-quarter growth...
...officially over. Accept it. The market, up as much as 19% this year, has given it all back and could easily finish the year with more losses. We're only weeks from hearing corporate confessionals about depressing third-quarter results. And with Asia's ills spreading to Russia and Latin America, profits overall--for global companies, most acutely--could well decline in the next few quarters. That's part of what has Wall Street so angst ridden, and it's why the investment game has changed fundamentally over the past few weeks. When the market is priced for perfection...