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Mexico, like most other Latin American countries, went through a deep economic crisis in the 1980s. Since 1986 and especially when President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office at the end of 1988, Mexico has implemented drastic and sometimes painful economic reforms: Since 1988, Mexico has cut the maximum tariff rate from 100 percent to 20 percent. It has exceeded its GATT commitment on tariff reduction, cutting the average trade-weighted tariff from over 25 percent in the mid-1980s to 4 percent...
...would aim for a much broader target. To reach a balanced budget by the year 2000, it would impose a strict means test on entitlements. Households would lose about 10% of their federal benefits of whatever kind for every $10,000 of income above $40,000, up to a maximum of 85% for those making $120,000 and up. The 58% of Americans whose incomes, including entitlements, range up to $40,000 would lose nothing. On the revenue side, the Concord plan calls for a 50 cents-per-gal. gas tax and a $12,000 cap ($20,000 for joint...
...rights advocates, AIDS activists and striking labor unions engage in activities similar to anti-abortion demonstrators. Yet those protesting abortion rights will now be put away for up to 2.5 years and fined up to $5,000, while their colleagues blocking the entrance to a power plant get a maximum of six months and only $1,000 in fines...
Jayme Koszyn's direction is consistently admirable. Unlike the actresses' accents, the script's rapid shifts in time and space never become disorienting. Clever use of props and dramatic changes in lighting create maximum mood changes in minimal time: The pace of the production could not be slicker. Sound effects are used to particular advantage. Although the only characters physically on stage are the four women themselves, the presences of the key men in their lives are made apparent through associated noises. Great-grandfather Jack is represented by a lawnmower, for example, with an efficacy which led me to wonder...
...Bunker-type homes. The coalition claimed that Home Depot gained its building permit without having undergone New York City's Uniform Land Use Review Process. It also says the store will devote 40,000 sq. ft. of space to building materials -- far more than the 10,000-sq.-ft. maximum required by law. Jesse Masyr, counsel for Home Depot, called the charges "specious...