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Misael Orduna Cecilda, a 24-year-old ice-cream vendor from Havana, made an unsuccessful break for it three weeks ago. He sprinted 25 yds. to the edge of a steep cliff, then jumped into the bay. The swirling currents quickly sapped his strength. He waved to a Coast Guard cutter to hoist him aboard. "The problem is, our goal was get to the U.S. as fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about...
...year in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) -- with the new provision that the money could be withdrawn for educational and other family-related purposes without paying taxes. Finally, he promised to rechannel some federal funds into direct grants for job-training.Payment for all this, as predicted, would come from steep budget cuts at the department of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (where, the president said, 60 programs will be streamlined into four). The result, Clinton said, would be "a leaner, not a meaner, government." And he reiterated his commitment to lobbying and campaign reform and called for a more...
...stock market took a steep dive early last Tuesday, plunging 91.52 points -- the biggest one-day loss in 10 months. Investors, worried about the effect of the Fed's latest interest-rate hike on corporate earnings and on the economy in general, shifted money to the bond market. At week's end, however, the Dow had gained back 30 points and closed...
...thought it was overpriced for what they had," Dinh added. "$28 per couple was a little steep...
...member Bundestag by only 10 seats -- a drop of 124 from four years ago. No one has forgotten how swiftly and confidently Kohl engineered Germany's unification, but this electoral decline is about what has happened since then. It marks the price he paid for a steep post-union recession, now ending, and the resentment felt in both eastern and western Germany over the high cost of bringing them together. Even so, unified Germany stuck with Kohl's leadership...