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...common mistake to assume that all abuse is physical. The scars of other forms of abuse -- like unrelenting verbal cruelty -- can be just as apparent when children grow older, unloved and self-hating. "You can tell kids you love 'em," says April, a runaway in Hollywood. "But that's not the same as showing them. Broken promises is really what tears your heart apart." For April there is not much difference between insult and injury. "Beating kids will hurt kids. Sexual abuse will hurt a kid. But verbal abuse is the worst. I've had all three...
These measures, advised by Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs, have included the termination of government subsidies and resulting runaway inflation. According to Lewandowski, the next round of restructuring includes the allocation of capital and labor away from the needs of the Soviet military...
...annual budget letter, Rosovsky said across-the-board spending reductions of up to 6 percent will be needed to lessen a runaway deficit. Only instructional salaries will be excluded, he said...
Deregulation coupled with federal insurance set Silverado loose like a runaway stagecoach. "Silverado began to take advantange of that $100,000 insurance fast," says Hemming. Wise opened an office that did nothing more than generate new deposits by telephone solicitation. He advertised market- breaking high interest rates called the Silverado Prime. But paying those rates meant Silverado had to get a higher return on loans. To do this, Wise and Metz gradually moved Silverado out of the home-loan market, abandoning small local builders and buyers in favor of big depositors and even bigger developers...
...Conoco said they would roll back gasoline prices by 1 cents to 4 cents per gal. Unocal, Amoco and Getty announced that they would freeze prices at the pump for a week or more, depending on conditions in the world markets. So for the moment, at least, the runaway price hikes that followed the invasion of Kuwait have been stopped in their tracks. But that was cold comfort to motorists, who were paying 17% more for their gasoline than just a week...