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...Wall, of course, was built in August 1961 for the very purpose of stanching an earlier exodus of historic dimensions, and for more than a generation it performed the task with brutal efficiency. Opening it up would have seemed the least likely way to stem the current outflow. But Krenz and his aides were apparently gambling that if East Germans lost the feeling of being walled in, and could get out once in a while to visit friends and relatives in the West or simply look around, they would feel less pressure to flee the first chance they got. Beyond...
Assessments of the school aside, there are those at Harvard who would argue that by perenially placing its high-powered politicos in Washington--no matter what their party affiliation--the University must confront an almost-continual outflow of some of its most prominent scholars...
...Bush's plan to bail out the savings and loan industry is getting little help from depositors, who are withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964 billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income and increase...
...central conduit for the trillions of yen pouring out of Japan in search of bigger, better returns. Last year, when Japan had a trade surplus of $96 billion, its net purchases of foreign securities amounted to $88 billion, up from $4 billion in 1980. The largest portion of that outflow used to go into U.S. Treasury securities, but increasingly the Japanese are buying foreign stocks and bonds. They are also acquiring overseas companies and real estate. And no matter what type of play a Japanese investor wants to make, Nomura stands ready to help...
...outflow led some tribes to fear for their cultural survival. Studies conducted in 1969 and 1974 found that between 25% and 35% of American Indian children were placed in institutions or in adoptive or foster care, mostly in non-Indian households. It was not unheard of for social workers to take children away from their parents "simply because their homes had no indoor plumbing," says David Getches, an expert on Indian law at the University of Colorado. Because it has discouraged such abuses and kept more Indian families together, says Getches, the legislation is a "success story...