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...decisive part of the cage of dependency ... Most of the loans were for financing railroads to bring minerals and foodstuffs to export terminals. The tracks were laid not to connect internal areas one another, but to connect production centers with ports ... thus railroads, so often hailed as forerunners of progress, were an impediment to the formation and development of an internal market...
...addition to that, the average number of people applying for unemployment benefits is not improving, and on a rolling average, the figures are getting worse. It is one statistic where the idea of the progress of the problem slowing means nothing. Another person out of a job is a new burden on the government, another blow to the optimism of the general population, and another man or woman who is no longer a consumer and may not be able to make mortgage payments. The pace of that trend does not mean much until net new jobs are being created Third...
...fighters released helicopter pilot Michael Durant, whose terrified face on television had turned many Americans against the whole involvement, and Nigerian soldier Umar Shantali. Durant, suffering from broken bones in the back, leg, arm and face, was flown to an American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help organize an African commission to investigate who really was responsible for the killing of 24 Pakistani U.N. soldiers in June (though the U.N. and U.S. have...
...Construction on the HMSDC building was halted for some time before a new contract could be negotiated, while progress on the pending five-star hotel in DHCC has been halted...
...Verdi J. DiSesa ‘72, the surgeon-in-chief at University Hospital, says that there have been realistic considerations regarding progress on the center, such as prolongation of recruitment and program development efforts. However, he remains positive on the long-term Singh is also optimistic about the prospects for the center’s operations...