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...contrast, in the northern industrial center of Turin, Communist Mayor Diego Novelli, 48, has at least solved his city's disastrous schoolroom shortage. In Turin, swollen with immigrant laborers from Italy's south, classrooms were so rare 4% years ago that students had to attend in two and sometimes three shifts. Now all put in a full day. Since 1975 (when Novelli was elected), the city has built 1,159 new classrooms and opened 267 kindergartens and 34 municipal nurseries...
...owned banks and companies, many of which had been nationalized during Allende's years, were sold back to private hands. At first, these reforms made things worse. Unemployment rocketed because a number of businesses failed in the new competitive environment, and the government was also cutting its own swollen payroll. But many of the old jobs were eventually replaced by new, more productive employment, and the government allowed the Chicago Boys to continue unshackling the economy. They concentrated on three areas...
...growth rate of about 8% this year, the bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have abandoned the land to jam into the already swollen cities in hope of sharing in a peace-bred boom. Thus unemployment is soaring at a time when inflation is hovering above...
...still be winners. In the first day of compulsory exercises, she ran off her usual daunting string of performances. Then an infection flared in her left hand and she was forced to enter a local hospital for treatment. When she emerged the next day, her hand was red and swollen to nearly twice its normal size. Despite obvious pain, she competed in one more event, the balance beam, and as the crowd gasped, whipped through two flipflops, bearing all her weight on one hand. Nadia's courageous effort was good for a 9.95. The next day she returned...
...tightwad gunslinger who drills his victims with platinum bullets, then digs them out of the victim for reuse. Townshend's forebear is a Norman soldier who landed at Hastings in 1066, fell out of the boat onto his shield and invented surfing, acquiring in the process a hugely swollen nose. Entwistle's own predecessor is a soused sea dog named Ahab, who goes about in a state of perpetual inebriation, spotting pink whales to port...