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...jobs, education and health care. Many of the area's poor people regarded him as something of a Mexican Robin Hood. The enmity between Salinas and Hernandez dates back to the President's tenure as Secretary of Planning and Federal Budget in the administration of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. At that time, Salinas accused both the oil union and Pemex, the state oil company, of inefficiency...
...fresh and refreshingly feckless designs of Sybilla, 25, of Madrid, and Dirk Bikkembergs, 29, of Antwerp, have mostly their brio in common. There is no serious risk that anyone would ever get their labels switched. Bikkembergs works out of a small, somewhat dilapidated studio, where he turns out a line of men's clothing that alternates between the sober gray severity of sweatsuit-style knitwear and the giddy excesses of retro-hippie sports clothes. Sybilla, who designs in a "dream house" atelier in Spain's sunny capital, makes mischievous, inventively styled fashions for women that work from no fixed stylistic...
Born Sybilla Sorondo in New York City, she worked for a year in Paris at Yves Saint Laurent as a seamstress, getting down her technique but drawing inspiration from the streets of Spain, where she grew up. She showed her first collection in Madrid in 1983, a "100% idealistic period, when I only did dresses for people who came to me." By 1984, however, she was selling her designs to other shops, and in three years she was producing more than her Spanish manufacturer could handle. She switched to GIBO, and although she admits, "I'm always terrified of losing...
...country's debt crisis has also forced the government of outgoing president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado to pursue a widely unpopular austerity program to revitalize the private sector. Social services such as health, education and nutrition have deteriorated or stagnated during the last few years, as a result...
...year-old Harvard-educated technocrat, who was responsible for implementing the unpopular austerity measures undertaken by the Madrid government during the last six years, has effectively argued that the country needs a smaller, less cumbersome bureaucracy, along with freer trade and increasing incentives for private industry. He has also called for further long-overdue reforms such as returning highly efficient state-run enterprises to private control and removing a wide range of consumer subsidies...