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...Reagan Administration's $2.4 trillion military buildup, defense spending is in a steady decline. The Pentagon budget is still staggering in size -- more than a quarter of annual federal outlays. But in fiscal 1990, for the fifth year in a row, defense spending will grow at a slower rate than inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the $295 billion spending request that Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has submitted for 1990 is 15% smaller than the 1985 budget...
...studies of genetic diseases suggest that the chromosomes from the two parents can play slightly different roles. For example, children who through a reproductive malfunction receive two copies of chromosome No. 7 from their mother and no copy from their father sometimes suffer from a severely retarded growth rate. Naturally occurring cases of a kidney cancer called Wilms tumor are caused by a missing chromosome. But in almost all cases, the missing chromosome was the mother's, not the father...
Under the new scheme, the commercial banks will have three options. They may cut the outstanding balance of their Mexican loans by 35%, reduce the interest on such loans from a floating rate (which has ranged from 9% to 14% and is currently 9.5%) to a fixed level of 6.25%, or provide a 25% increase in credit over the next four years. The 15 commercial institutions that took part in the negotiations hold the majority of Mexico's commercial-bank debt. But for the plan to be effective, the banks will have the tough task of persuading 500 of their...
...told, the plan may provide Mexico with about $4 billion in loan reductions, $6 billion in interest-rate reductions and $2.5 billion in new credits. That is much less than the 55% debt relief, or $29.7 billion, that Mexico originally asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers...
Maybe. At any rate, it seems likely that sociologist Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (Viking; $18.95) will turn up in empty fridges, on piles of undone laundry and taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...