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...Mexico's 90 million citizens know but sometimes try to forget, their country is not a seamless unity but a patchwork of dissimilar people and unequal progress. Roughly the top half of the country has joined the 21st century; the rest is mired in unyielding poverty. Differences among the pieces of the mosaic have increased, and the gap between rich and poor has widened during the country's economic advance. Salinas began his six-year term in & office in 1988 by selling off hundreds of bloated state-owned companies and deregulating private industry; he tightened credit to bring inflation down...
...laying down perfect circles and then retracing the etching exactly - from competitions. The decision changed the nature of the sport - and brought whoops of joy from would-be champions. Now they could concentrate on flashy leaps and spins; certain skaters - Nancy Kerrigan among them - who had trouble with patchwork could surge ahead...
Among the patchwork of right-wing alliances and interest groups currently yearning to take jabs at the Democrats, few stand in a better position to deliver a knockout punch than the Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. And in Halperin, they have a target so enticing that Republican staff members privately refer to him as "the real, red meat...
Making matters even more complicated, there is no federal body charged with setting artificial-fertilization policy in the U.S. The last congressional commission empowered to debate the new technology was disbanded in 1990. Instead, policy is set by a patchwork of state laws, professional societies and local review boards, like the one at George Washington that gave the go- ahead to Hall and Stillman...
...over the years, the corps's attempts to control the Mississippi have backfired. Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial soil. Along the Mississippi, however, this pattern of natural flow has been increasingly blocked by a patchwork of levees...