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...that the World Bank dispensed in the twelve months ending in June. Says David Knox, the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean: "The debt crisis has led a lot of Latin American governments to do some hard thinking about their policies. We think the tide is running in a sensible direction, so we are trying to swim with...
...especially true of the majority of Members of Parliament from the ruling National Party, Suzman continued caustically, every Nationalist M.P. should be obliged to attend a black funeral "disguised as a human being." In that way, they might "get some idea of the intensity of feeling, of the heavy tide of resistance sweeping through the townships, instead of sitting on their green benches in Parliament, insulated like fish in an aquarium...
...news: the prisons are already full. So concludes the Justice Department, which last week reported that as of December 1985, 503,601 people are now behind bars, 53% more than were incarcerated in 1980. Mandatory sentencing laws have prompted the increase, says a Justice Department expert. But this swelling tide has filled many U.S. prisons beyond capacity. Last year the lack of available cells forced corrections officials in 19 states to grant 18,617 prisoners early release...
...periodicals, 9,824 radio stations, 941 commercial TV stations and 300 public TV stations. Every kind of subject, from sex to childbirth, from economics to how to build a house, from politics to gardening to baseball to Lyndon LaRouche, is printed and aired and ventilated. This almost preposterous tide of information and opinion is not censored or jammed. American book publishers offer some 50,000 titles every year. One can have all of Shakespeare in paperback for a few dollars--or for the same price can go to see the revenge fantasies of Sylvester Stallone...
Prime contributors to the growing tide of plastic pollution are the world's merchant ships, which, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, dump at least 6.6 million tons of trash overboard every year. Some 639,000 plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging...