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...state-run network, included sketches of couples engaged in various intimate acts. Health officials discussed the AIDS-related risks associated with the pictured practices, and fielded calls from anxious viewers. France has yet to start a coordinated effort. A 20-year- old law, prompted by France's stagnant birth rate and amended only in November, had made it illegal to advertise condoms on television or in magazines...
...small (11,100 sq. mi., pop. 3 million) mountainous country of great beauty. Fewer than 300,000 inhabitants live in Tirane, the capital; 85% of the people reside in towns and villages. Small factories produce such goods as rough textiles, canned foods, glassware and machine parts. The economy is stagnant, in part because of an almost pathological aversion to debt. The constitution outlaws acceptance of foreign credits, thus making Albania's outside trade dependent on barter deals or the cash sale of its exports, which include chromium, oil and agricultural products. The economy is also crippled by a disintegrating industrial...
Addressing approximately 30 students in Government 1790, "U.S. Foreign Policy," Kalb said, "Gorbachev is making a major effort to inject reform into a stagnant system. He has begun to tinker with the system, but he will fail unless he can change the monopoly of power by the Party...
Titled The Bi-Coastal Economy, the study asserts that economic growth during the Reagan Administration has been concentrated in California and 15 states lining the Atlantic Coast, while the rest of the country has been almost stagnant. From 1981 through 1985, these 16 coastal states enjoyed a lopsided 69% of total growth in personal income. Put another way: income from wages, salaries, rents and proprietary income in the 16 states rose a robust average 4% a year, vs. an anemic 1.4% in the other 34 states. The coastal states, where 42% of all Americans live, attracted...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...