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...other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." His political heirs are finding that it is a difficult task indeed...
...Dubious" certainly was the term for fresh disclosures that the city paid $400,000 to a trade task force run by a business associate of Bradley's. The Securities and Exchange Commission, moreover, is looking into the mayor's ! holdings in stocks, real estate and junk bonds; parts of Bradley's portfolio were handled by Drexel Burnham Lambert, whose deposed junk-bond king, Michael Milken, contributed to Bradley's political campaigns...
...ticklish task is made even tougher by the failure of the Bush Administration and Congress to rein in a runaway budget deficit that helps keep interest rates high. White House and congressional leaders merely ducked the issue last month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley...
Multiplying signs that the record 6 1/2-year expansion is coming to an end present the Federal Reserve with the ticklish task of engineering a soft landing. The White House and Congress could help by cutting the budget deficit. -- To protect the environment and their profits, firms are recycling plastics. -- Mystery surrounds the death of an executive of Florida's troubled Gulf Power...
...time, and thousands-on-thousands of their bourgeois and working-class parents' hard-won income, on the annual "cakewalk"-type dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political and social reason why Harvard College should extend its imprimatur to Black Greeks...