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...student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...
Salinas' is but one voice in what has become a rising chorus of debtor discontent. Crippled by stagnant growth and a combined foreign debt of more than $400 billion, Latin American governments are finding it increasingly unacceptable to shoulder interest payments for loans that only push them deeper into the red. Yet the banks that made the loans, many of them privately held U.S. institutions, have come up with few acceptable solutions...
...January, with inflation running at nearly 1,500%, the cordoba was pegged at a rate of 10 for each U.S. dollar; today the rate is 1,600 to $1. In Managua outdoor markets are bordered by garbage mounds where malnourished scavengers pick through the debris in search of food. Stagnant waters have become a breeding ground for dengue fever. In rural areas a plague of rats threatens the country's sugarcane crops...
When the gates are up, they will oscillate with the sea. Thus even as they hold back the water, they will allow the sea's wave motion to pass to the lagoon. This will help prevent the gates from making the lagoon more stagnant and polluted. "The technology isn't new, but the combination is," says Franco De Siervo, technical director for the consortium. "There is nothing like it in the world...
...offense was stagnant," freshman Peter Richards said. "We controlled them defensively for a while, but we got a couple of bad breaks, and they completely shut us down...