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...making last week. He traveled to Atlanta to stress his commitment to civil rights and women's concerns before a convention of the American Bar Association, announced that a task force would study the problem of hunger in America, and increased the Government's distribution of surplus cheese and other foods to the needy...
...toward bringing off an audacious pledge: the L.A.O.O.C. merely plans to host a record 12,000 athletes and present 17 new events for a minuscule $475 million, not a penny of it from any taxpayer's pocket. In fact, these unbuttoned optimists expect to have a $9 million surplus...
...raise without new credit. A $10.2 billion emergency loan package put together in February by the IMF and Western commercial banks came unraveled because the Brazilians did not meet all the agreed-upon conditions. Though they curbed imports enough to come very close to a target $3 billion trade surplus for the first half of the year, they failed to slow inflation and government spending. As a result, the IMF and the banks in May suspended the flow of loan money. Since then, Brazil has fallen more than $1 billion in arrears on its debt payments...
...Holyoke decided to offer 30 $400 awards to specially selected students, because the college had a surplus of funds after awarding the regular financial and packages. Irma Rabbino, director of public relations, said last year...
...spend $600 million in precious foreign-exchange reserves for food imports this year alone. Indonesia, which finally achieved self-sufficiency in rice last year, will need to import 2 million tons of rice this year at a cost of $700 million. Zimbabwe, which enjoys so regular a crop surplus that it exported food to twelve African nations in 1981-82, is this year for the first time reportedly requesting $25 million in food...