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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared as any candidate descending on Springfield last May for the state Democratic convention. For her underdog bid to wrest the body's nonbinding endorsement for Secretary of State from incumbent Michael J. Connally, she enlisted a cadre of children to pass out yellow roses and an unusually heavy load of signs, bumper stickers and buttons. They even placed a large scoreboard in the galleries to keep delegates posted on the progress of the Celtics playoff game. Though Sansone's was an uphill fight, the small, red-haired Boston city councilor realized that even a spunky effort in defeat could...
...decreased before much new borrowing can occur. In the past six years, American manufacturing and other nonfinancial corporations have doubled their total indebtedness to $1.2 trillion, a figure that exceeds the federal debt, and in industry after industry the ratios of assets to borrowing have deteriorated dangerously. The debt load doubtless will crush more companies into bankruptcy even in the early stages of a recovery...
...charming narrator named Mario. Vargas Llosa is an artful dissembler. He appears to have taken the defensible position that since most autobiographies are figments of self-serving imaginations, one might as well accept memory as a fiction machine and get on with it. Mercifully he lightens this intellectual load by turning his life into a soap opera and putting its popular conventions to higher literary uses. Banalities become oddly resonant and trivialities bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia...
...take whatever steps may be necessary to solve their benefit-payment problems, Congress last year imposed a 10% interest penalty on all funds borrowed from the Federal Trust after April 1, 1982. Previously, such loans were interest free. As a result, some states will soon face a staggering debt load. Ohio, which will owe $2 billion by mid-1983, expects to pay $100 million in interest alone in 1983, and $200 million more in 1984. Since federal law prohibits the use of state unemployment funds to pay these costs, the states will have little choice but to slash services...
...borders. Moreover, the Federal Government sometimes brings charges in civil rights cases, such as those involving police brutality, when it believes local juries have been too lenient. But different states do not seem to have prosecuted in the same case, in part no doubt to avoid the extra work load. In the Heath case, however, Becky's father wanted to see his daughter's killers get the death penalty, and he urged the second prosecution. William Benton, the district attorney in Phenix City, had his own reasons. "A state has a responsibility to protect its citizens," he says...