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...country was forced to replace as much as $20 billion in military equipment. After taking office in 1977, Begin attempted to spark the economy by allowing each Israeli the right to hold up to $3,000 in foreign currency. The nation embarked on a spending splurge, causing inflation to spiral. In 1979, the rate broke...
...member executive board. The plan calls for Argentine workers to receive 6% to 8% wage hikes this year on top of whatever increases they need to keep pace with inflation. IMF economists have argued that such a policy could cause Argentina's 568% inflation rate to spiral even higher. But Alfonsín hopes that the IMF board, which is controlled by the governments of the major industrial countries, will be sympathetic to the political plight of Argentina's six-month-old democratic regime...
...book, however, as Woodward starts detailing the efforts of Belushi's wife and friends to get him to stop his binges, the lack of analysis by the author detracts from the power of the story. Woodward wants to show why they were unable to stop the downward spiral, but he leaves us wondering instead if it was lack of will on Belushi's part, on his friends' part, or simply the hyper-intensive. Hollywood scene that...
...amnesty plank, saying that it will end the negative social and economic sub-culture in which illegals are forced to exist. But in reality, it would have little effect Legalized immigrants would be ineligible for federal programs such as food stamps. Medicaid, and Aid to Dependent Children, allowing the spiral of poverty among undocumented workers to continue...
...penchant for cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing, otherworldly and stridently physical all at the same time: a master piece...