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There are no easy solutions in sight, but it seems that everybody has his own theory on what is to be done. "I think the Ivies as a group should look at the concept of alumni recruiting in an effort to develop a more uniform policy," Jarocki says. Reardon concurs...
Hall began farming years ago in Nottinghamshire, England. He is a rangy, bearded man who looks like D.H. Lawrence without the haunted introversion. "I always craved wilder conditions," Hall says, matter-of-factly. "I just don't like civilization in any form." The sight of a paved road incenses...
...fairly stable at 23 pesos to the dollar. Last week the peso closed at 1,009. After years of devaluations, caused in part by a soft oil market and a growing trade deficit, the latest slip in the peso did not surprise economists. And the end is not in sight: most experts believe the peso will fall to 1,800 by year's end. Three-digit inflation is expected to continue. On Feb. 1 the postal service doubled its rates overnight without warning. A majority of the 20 million-member work force reportedly earns less than the minimum wage...
...result, Mexico's creditors sense that serious austerity measures are nowhere in sight. One New York bank last month wrote off as a bad debt $40 million of the $257 million it is owed by Mexico. A consortium of 200 U.S. banks is delaying the transfer of funds for a $7 billion loan. Says a foreign banker: "In 1987 spending will outweigh any prudence." That is unlikely to reassure many leery Mexicans. For most, the yearning for a better life is tempered by the knowledge that things can -- and probably will -- get much worse...
District Attorney Castille's office, confronted by an avalanche of new cases, with few judges in sight, has been asking for -- and getting -- exemptions from a state requirement that defendants go on trial within six months of being charged. The result is a further clogging of the overburdened criminal-justice system. The situation threatens to leave Philadelphia with few choices beyond releasing a lot of dangerous individuals because they cannot be tried at one end of the system, while being forced to turn loose convicts from already overcrowded prisons at the other end. "We can't move cases," says Castille...