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Despite its remarkable progress, however, Argentina is far from cured. Economic experts agree that permanent recovery is dependent on the government's ability to lift wage and price controls without reviving inflation. Alfonsin must also induce more private investment and woo back the approximately $25 billion in capital that fled the country during inflationary times. Finally, the government will have to return to private hands some of the 300 or so state-owned enterprises, which lost a total of $2 billion last year. All of this will require public confidence that inflation has truly been conquered...
...still looking for other groups to partake in the festival. Planning is still in progress," said Antoinette M. Riley '85, a Foundation staff assistant...
...came from a gathering where 162 delegates worked in a friendly and surprisingly freewheeling atmosphere. There was, said the Pope, "variety in unity." The bishops, drawn from 105 nations, candidly discussed such complex questions as readmitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the sacraments and the need for more ecumenical progress, but often without achieving any consensus. That may have been the inevitable result of trying, within twelve working days, to cope with an impossibly ambitious task: analyzing the consequences of the Second Vatican Council, whose sessions stretched over four years...
...selling top-secret information to Israel. Even as details of Peres' internal investigation of the affair began leaking to the press, the Prime Minister stubbornly refused to comment on the case. When Shultz placed his call to Peres, the Reagan Administration was impatient for at least some sign of progress on the Pollard inquiry. It was time to confront the issue...
...unconstitutional because of overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical legislators. Before recessing last week, however, the legislature made some progress on an omnibus reform bill that would help depopulate the state's prisons of less dangerous criminals. One tactic: parole hearings would be scheduled for convicts who had served 95% of the time needed for eligibility. The necessary qualifying time for parole would continue to be lowered until the federally...