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Washington, who had declared during the campaign earlier this year that taxes would have to be increased to pay for those fiscal sins, made a desperate effort to stave off the financial branding from Wall Street. In July he made a television address, declaring the need for "immediate and drastic action" to prevent the city from going broke. According to the mayor's calculations then, the city was facing a $135 million deficit in its $1.9 billion budget...
...forswore his Gucci shoes and expensive suits for moccasins and old sweaters. He stuck close to matters of local concern, such as improving harbors and providing financial aid for fishermen, and cannily refused to be drawn into defining his stance on national issues. That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider. Nonetheless, his easy manner quickly won the admiration of crusty Nova Scotians. Mulroney trounced his closest rival in last week's by-election...
...crux of the military self-justification was its claim that security officials had a mandate to "annihilate subversive elements." The point is crucial to the many unrepentant officers, who fear a civilian probe and possible prosecution after the scheduled October elections. To stave off this prospect, the report flatly stated, the military would submit to no further questioning. Ominously, the military also warned that having once saved the nation from terror, it would not hesitate to "do so again...
...biggest threat still facing Jamaica is the worldwide slump in the aluminum industry, which serves as the backbone of the economy, Seaga said. In order to stave off heavy losses the U.S. has been buying up surplus Jamican bauxite, the raw form of aluminum...
...result of a very conscious decision by doctors, along with the patient's family, to withhold treatment." The question becomes not how to save a life but when to let it go. Aided by artificial and transplanted organs and a jungle gym of gadgetry, doctors can now stave off death for long periods. The blessings of science have brought the curse of choices that raise confounding ethical and legal uncertainties. Is life, however tenuous or painful, always preferable to death? At what point should doctors stop treating terminally ill or permanently unconscious patients? Which forms of treatment or care...