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...that monetary reform by itself can revitalize the economy. "The main task now is not to manipulate finances," Oleg Yashin, first vice president of the Savings Bank of Russia, told Pravda. Rather, he declared, "it is to enable every enterprise to develop, operate at full capacity, freely sell the output on the market and worthily reward the work of its personnel...
...meet the need for condoms, population bureaucrats are pressing the nation's latex industry to stretch output quickly by 100 million, to a peak of 1.5 billion a year. Check off one more victory for the forces of supply and demand over central planning...
Freshman Ben Coughlin captured ECAC Rookie of the Week honors for his outstanding offensive output last week...
...week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank by 1.9% in 1991, the first yearly decline since the 1981-82 recession. One piece of good news did emerge. The weak economy managed to contain inflation. Consumer prices rose a modest 3.1% in 1991, the lowest in five years...
...economy overnight after nearly half a century of communism. The result has been both progress and pain. Stores have plenty of goods on the shelves, and inflation, which had been running at an annual rate of 2,000% in 1989, was down to 60% last year. But industrial output has plunged, and 2.1 million workers (12% of the work force) are unemployed. Not surprisingly, political backlash is growing. Last week 2 million Solidarity members staged a one-hour strike to demand a new economic program...