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With help, and the occasional shove, from groups of foreign advisers, Aristide has taken steps to make a broken and bankrupt nation viable again. The economy, which shrank 30% from 1991 to 1994, mostly because of international sanctions against Cadras, is growing at a healthy pace of 4.5% a year. The inflation rate stands at 25%, less than half the level of a year ago. Factories and other businesses are reopening. Though once a committed socialist, Aristide has agreed to International Monetary Fund and World Bank demands that he reduce tariffs, limit the scope of government involvement in the economy...
...took two teammates to shove him out of the dugout and into posterity for good, as he took a victory lap around the stadium, slapping hands with the fans, leaping to give high fives to the folks in the centerfield bleachers...
...love my girlfriend. We're soul mates. She could honestly be the love of my life. She just turned 21, though, and our relationship is on the rocks. Every time we go out, she orders martinis--two at a time. She likes to take the olives and shove them up her nostrils. She says she likes the smell of martini-soaked olives. I tell her it's humiliating, but she's addicted. Now I'm a mortified co-dependent and she's a shameless spectacle. The insanity must stop, but how? Hiding my head at the Harvest...
That is pretty much the way things are throughout Haiti two months after 21,000 American troops arrived to shove the regime of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras into exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country...
Alice Rivlin, the Clinton Administration's budget director, said today that incoming House SpeakerNewt Gingrich's avowed tax-cutting planwould send the federal deficit through the roof and shove the economy into a recession. "If we had a big tax cut right now and people were spending more, the inflation danger would be much more real than it is now," Rivlin told reporters. "You'd have rapid increases in interest rates, and probably throw the economy into a recession." Republicans fired back: Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said any GOP tax cut would be offset by spending cuts, and tweaked...