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...government. But Aquino and Bhutto have spent much of their popular support. Unable to end Pakistan's ethnic strife, Bhutto has fallen, and her match-made husband Asif Zardari has been accused of corruption. With each threat of a coup, the Philippine economy falters, and Aquino's grip grows shakier...
...found that as much as $4 billion can be pared from the cost of those transactions, mostly by prepaying notes and taking back bad assets. Trouble is, it will take $18 billion to $20 billion in operating cash to do it. And it may push 17 of the shakier institutions back into insolvency. As before, a political unwillingness to face the true magnitude of bailing out the thrifts, and put up the money for it, means that the costs will remain obscured -- and will probably continue to rise...
When it is not high technology but rather basic care that is being withheld, doctors find themselves on shakier ground. Right-to-life proponents, including some physicians, argue that food and water, even supplied artificially, are not "medical treatment." They are the very least that human beings owe one another -- and that doctors owe their patients. To keep a heart beating after a brain is dead makes no sense. But Nancy Cruzan is not brain dead; like a baby, she survives...
...President's stance is even shakier, given his campaign to cut the rate on capital gains, a measure that would mostly benefit taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year. The President, along with probable majorities on Capitol Hill, in effect proposes to cut taxes on the wealthy while raising them on wage earners...
...exactly 2% and inflation starts to slow. But as a practical matter, it rarely works out." If credit is too tight, the resulting interest- rate run-up could trigger a recession. And if the Fed allows inflation to quicken, the markets will grow panicky and the dollar could grow shakier...