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...Prime Minister was out of the country for "medical reasons" that most of his countrymen believed were also largely political. Eight Cabinet ministers were reported to have resigned amid allegations of rampant corruption and to be held under house arrest. The acting Prime Minister ordered the army on alert, and roadblocks went up around the capital...
...rampant federal borrowing and consumer buying of imports have contributed to the biggest cliff-hanger of all, the U.S. foreign-trade deficit. That imbalance between exports and imports, which reached a record $170 billion last year, prompts jitters among foreign moneymen, many of whom feel that too much of their trade surpluses are tied up in dollars and U.S. Treasury securities. Says Economist John Kenneth Galbraith: "The danger is that we have accumulated under the Reagan Administration such enormous overseas obligations that these could, if liquidated, create a very, very nasty run on the dollar and also a nasty collapse...
...replaced by more official, better planned mass events. As they become the dominant from of public expression it is inevitable that the less rigid old-style from of public meeting will be viewed negatively. How else can one explain the MDC's vastly over blown fears of rampant hooliganism at the Head of the Charles...
With money scarce, and goods even scarcer, a diplomat observes, "crooked deals multiply until they ensure that the economic plan can never work." Some people take photos, fix jalopies or do typing on the side; others simply try to resell the goods they manage to procure. The rampant finagling is only encouraged by a bureaucracy with so many hands that none is likely to know what the others are doing: in a Havana telephone directory, the list of ministries takes up 77 pages...
...dark side of the rampant housing inflation is that it is becoming more difficult for families to buy a new house if they do not already own a home that they can sell at a hefty price. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that nearly 70% of this year's buyers of new homes are trading up -- exchanging their old houses for better, more expensive ones. Thus first- time buyers account for only 30% of the market, down from 50% as recently...