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What went wrong? In initiating Milton Friedman's theories, Thatcher seems to have discovered a catch-22. Push interest rates to a record high, which she did, and it is private enterprise and individuals who have to curtail investment and spending. Force noncompetitive businesses to wring out their slack and unemployment rises. As workers "go on the dole...
Housekeeping has a few slack moments. Ruth occasionally meditates on a scene without sufficiently setting it. She sometimes meanders. But this first novel does much more than show promise; it brilliantly portrays the impermanence of all things, especially beauty and happiness, and the struggle to keep what can never be owned. Robinson, 37, who lives with her husband and two sons in Massachusetts, grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, before majoring in English at Brown and earning a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Though she says that Housekeeping is "totally not autobiographical," the novel's vivid landscapes betray...
...park. Teachers scrimp too, earning from $9,000 to $13,500 a year, compared with the $10,000 to $25,000 offered by the public schools. But there are few complaints. "The curriculum here is much more difficult," says Third-Grade Teacher Barbara Urban, 27. "Nobody is allowed to slack or goof off." Boasts Teacher Stephanie Love: "I have parent volunteers to help me grade papers and to tutor the children who need special work...
...next year on $21 billion in foreign debts. Already Warsaw must spend 82% of its foreign sales revenue to service such debt. Most of it stems from bobbled efforts to build an industrial base after World War II. Two primary exports, steel and textiles, have been hurt by slack demand abroad. Polish agriculture contributes little either to foreign earnings or domestic stomachs. The workers' strikes, set off by hikes in meat prices, added to the economic breakdown...
Unable to retain its hold on the trophies in women's soccer and touch football, Winthrop picked up the slack in other areas by winning cross country, men's soccer and co-ed touch football...