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...swollen budget. After an initially sluggish response by the Reagan Administration, Washington has pumped current AIDS funding to a robust $1.6 billion. That is slightly more than the budget for cancer ($1.5 billion), which killed more than twelve times as many people last year (500,000, compared with 40,000 who died from AIDS). And it is far greater than the $610 million budget for heart disease, the nation's top killer. "It's wrong to spend more money on a disease that will never kill more than 35,000 to 40,000 people a year than on a disease...
Last spring doctors administered a dose of radioactive iodine to slow down the First Lady's hyperactive thyroid. But treatment with a steroid, prednisone, failed to cure her vision problems. Should the radiation treatments (in which low-intensity rays are focused on swollen tissues behind the eyes) prove no more effective, the next step could be surgery...
During the crisis, Menem remained virtually out of sight. The key question is whether he will stick to this latest plan, since he has failed to honor many other austerity pledges. He had promised to rid the swollen Argentine government of scores of money-losing businesses and to make the country's bloated public sector more efficient, presumably by trimming its size through layoffs or attrition. But Menem, a Peronist whose political base is Argentina's powerful labor movement, has not had the stomach to set the stage for a confrontation with the country's blue-collar workers by carrying...
This future Air Force One is already being called a "flying Taj Mahal." The two Boeing 747-200Bs are included in the contract of $265 million, a cost now swollen to nearly $650 million, with Boeing and its shareholders stuck for the loss. Throw in an additional $50 million for the new hangar already constructed at Andrews Air Force Base and about $100 million for service and maintenance units. One way or another, Americans are spending the better part of a billion dollars to get their President airborne, and then it will cost around $6,000 an hour...
...rise to power. "A British sailor is any man's equal...except mine," he continues. This role, while certainly not a sympathetic one, is the jewel of H.M.S. Pinafore. Percus' facial expressions and the way he used his body to express his arrogance and frustration were perfect for the swollen-headed aristocrat...