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...wrenching and novel process of converting command economies into free markets will make things even worse for at least a while. Poland's courageous total-immersion reform plan, begun Jan. 1, is expected to reduce workers' wages by 20% from their already desperate levels. Poland begins this experiment owing $40 billion to the West from the disastrous 1970s. Yugoslavia, Hungary and East Germany owe about $20 billion apiece...
...people with financial problems, Televerket has introduced a one-way telephone service that allows them to receive calls but not make them. Delinquent customers who are thus spared the embarrassment of their callers' hearing a message that the number has been disconnected agree to pay the money they owe on an installment plan. Televerket is starting the service, which has already been tested by a few local phone companies, in part because unemployment has reached nearly 5%, a record high for Norway. Compassion has its limits, however. The company does not offer the arrangement to customers with a long history...
...count?" Blades rejoins. "You owe me. What are we going...
...John as you know I am cast in the pit of despair, wondering what I am meant to do and if I am doing the right thing--should I sell the damn place and solve all my problems, but some stubborn streak makes me keep holding on. Man I owe thousands of pounds, about sixteen thousand in all. How the hell do I get out of this mess tell me, please do, and yet I still nurture a dream to make this place into somewhere the jobless and homeless wandering about the place could come and get back on their...
...ALWAYS wondered how federal policymakers could be so oblivious to the size of the national debt. The United States now owe banks and foreign countries about $3 trillion, constituting a large chunk of our Gross National Product. Each year we spend more than $130 billion in interest payments on the debt--money America could otherwise use to solve several major national problems...