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...problems that De la Madrid confronts at home are even more nightmarish than those that worry bankers abroad. Inflation, which stood at 60% as recently as August, has reached nearly 100% and is expected to climb further next year. The peso has lost more than three-quarters of its value against the U.S. dollar in the past ten months. In a country that reveled in growth rates of 8% or higher for four years, the economy has come to a virtual standstill. Next year will be even worse: gross domestic product is expected to decline 2% or more. The unemployment...
...simulated performance clips tend to be dull and repetitive: lip syncs sink clips. But the best videos enhance the mood of a song and expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary. Nightmarish images from Billy Joel's subconscious accompany his shouts in the song Pressure; Stevie Nicks floats through a moving Magritte painting in Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy...
Until recently, acknowledging Viet Nam veterans in such showy fashion would have connoted approval of the nightmarish war. However, "within the soul of each Viet Nam veteran," says Max Cleland, who lost both legs and a forearm in the war and headed the Veterans Administration under Jimmy Carter, "there is probably something that says, 'Bad war, good soldier.' " Their fellow Americans are only now coming to appreciate that distinction and, as Cleland says, "separate the war from the warrior." Mike Mullings of Bethany, Okla., a medic in Viet Nam, agrees that "things are changing. It might sound corny...
...international oil glut helped to cause the near collapse of Dome. The company, one of Canada's largest, had amassed debts of $7.4 billion, more than one-quarter of that due to the Hudson's Bay deal. Interest rates on the debt grew to a nightmarish 22%. Last month Dome was saved from bankruptcy by a government-backed emergency bailout handled through a consortium of four Canadian banks...
Haitians, fleeing from the nightmarish conditions in their own country, have headed for the United States in droves. Some 44,000 refugees were officially known to have arrived between 1972 (the year alter Duvalier took office) and 1981. The true number is almost certainly much higher. It was only in 1980, when 125,000 Cubans set out for the United States in the "Freedom Flotilla," that Haitians began to be refused entry to America in large numbers. Observers attribute the change in policy to an American fear triggered by the sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians...