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...aggressively pushed to get people "off welfare, and onto the elevator of opportunity." And he claims that < his toughlove works: while 40 states showed a 10% increase in the number of families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children between July 1989 and April 1991, Wisconsin's case load increased only...
Then in April 1988, a load of Brazilian cedar boards arrived in Tarpon Springs, Fla., aboard the freighter Amazon Sky. DEA alerted Tampa Customs that an informer had reported drugs were aboard. Inspectors drilled holes in stacks of lumber planks, but found nothing. At the last moment, a Customs man saw a crew member drop a plank and glance about nervously. The inspector drilled into the board and hit white powder. The seizure was a record 3,270 kg of cocaine, but just 700 of the 9,000 planks held any drugs...
...system for transferring the drugs is dizzyingly complicated but well- orchestrated. When a load of drugs is shipped to the U.S., the home office faxes to the cell head a list of buyers, the amount of their purchases and their beeper numbers. The cell head signals each customer's beeper to arrange a delivery at a street corner or parking lot. After the customer sells the cocaine down the line, he fixes a second meeting to make payment. The deals take two minutes or less to consummate...
...every American a tangible benefit for his tax dollar. Not only do picnicgoers count on the predictions to save them from a sprinkling, but thousands of businesses depend on the NWS for their very survival -- from airlines plotting the most efficient flight path to utilities trying to meet peak-load demands. Farmers, fishermen, oil drillers, construction companies, snowmakers, moviemakers, grain speculators and baseball umpires all have an urgent interest in accurate weather predictions. With hats in hand, NWS officials tried to impress this upon the Senators last week. And while further technical delays seem inevitable, the betting is that funds...
...heavy debt load weighs on every sector of the economy from consumers to the Federal Government. Burdened by overzealous borrowing, more than 60,000 companies with liabilities totaling a record $64 billion declared bankruptcy last year. The pace has quickened in 1991 as firms with liabilities of $34.6 billion failed in the first four months alone. Last week the city of Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 142,000), became the largest U.S. municipality ever to declare bankruptcy when it filed for protection from creditors after failing to find a politically acceptable way to close a $12 million budget...