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...government expects to close the $75 billion fiscal gap by cutting operating expenses 10%, freezing wages and halting new hires. The plan calls for the creation of a new independent statistical service, which should make it harder for officials to manipulate data. It also includes an improved tax-collection system designed to catch tax cheats, who have created an underground economy worth possibly as much as 25% of the country's output. The method proposed: incentives that encourage Greeks, who for decades have paid for services in cash, to ask for receipts, to pressure service providers to report the income...
...packed on a recent weekend, and the shelves in many of its 131 stores were bare. Perhaps it's a final party, just like Tsiknopempti, before things get leaner. A recent poll in the newspaper Ethnos reported that 73% of those surveyed said they were willing to make sacrifices to turn the crisis around. "Greeks know the days of living on borrowed money are over," says investor and economist Timos Melissaris. "The time has come to pay the bill." Lent, it seems, is going to last a hell of a lot longer this year...
...Argentines thought we weren't really committed to the Falkland Islands. We mustn't make that mistake again...
...asked them the same questions I asked Kenzie because I had to make sure they could be trusted," says Philistin. "The family thought he was dead, but then I pointed to the big boat out in the sea." This family was happy to bring Kenzie home, and aid workers are checking regularly to make sure he's settling...
...moral and material - for such caregivers, whom UNICEF recruits from the children's neighborhoods. The amount of food, clothing and education assistance provided to foster families is not a lot - agencies don't want to encourage people to step forward just for the aid - but it's enough to make caregivers feel as if they're getting adequate backup. (See the destruction in Haiti from...