Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season will aim for the big hit by distilling familiar formulas: stars and songs. On a good night, Broadway will have more stars than there are in Hollywood. Elizabeth Taylor spent the summer in town with The Little Foxes, and this fall a quartet of grandes dames will lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins...
...farmers can expect some $350 million in "deficiency payments"-literally, Government handouts-to make up the difference. In addition, more than 1 billion bu. of grain are expected to end up in farmer-owned reserves by the end of the year under a program that will lend farmers close to $2.9 billion to keep it off the market. The Agriculture Department is also expected to buy 10% of this year's dairy production, at a cost of $1.9 billion, to keep prices high. The estimated federal outlay in fiscal 1982 for farm subsidies and loans: a staggering $3.9 billion...
...third agreement broken in 17 months. According to the IMF, Costa Rica had once again failed to keep its promise to curtail excessive spending. Laments Economist Edward Lizano: "I think we have the world championship in broken IMF agreements." The situation is now so bad that nobody will lend Costa Rica even the short-term money it needs for the rest of the year. In July and August, the government sent representatives to the U.S., Canada, West Germany, France, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia in pursuit of a fast $60 million; the representatives came home emptyhanded...
When Carazo asked the IMF to lend Costa Rica money for the third time last January, he immediately began to sell dollars on the open market in order to bolster the sinking colón and thereby impress the IMF staff negotiating in San José. The cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like...
...life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied up next week or never. Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life on the run; overlapping conversations lend Hill Street the texture of a Robert Altman locker room. The tone can explode from mellow to melodrama within a single sequence. This is an urban M*A*S*H, a ferociously intelligent Dallas-and very much its own show...