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...doesn't seem to make a hell of a lot of difference whether we have [PR] or not," says tenant activist William B. Cunningham. "If it's supposed to give minority representation, it doesn't, because we basically have a two-party system...
...with a car, it's different. We still make some here; and while my friends assure me their foreign ones are a lot better, they all go at about the same speed...
...than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard Downie Jr. that the Times poses a threat. Says he: "They appear to print a lot of things that we didn't think were quite ready to print...
...same vein, Sachs believes that the Latin debt crisis will eventually ease. He considers a plan that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady unveiled last spring, which calls for limited debt reduction, a modest but encouraging step. "There has been a lot of progress," Sachs says. "The thinking is much more realistic...
Moreover, the reformers must work with ingredients that have grown stale. Every East European nation faces to some extent a similar litany of consumer complaints: food and fuel shortages, inadequate salaries that are declining in purchasing power, massive budget deficits. It presumes a lot to think that East Europeans will sit quietly through the price hikes, plant closings, job layoffs and other austerity measures ahead. "It's a race against time," says Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute for International Relations. "Can the democratization of politics beat the Third-Worldization of their economies...