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...consequence of the hiatus, there are now three times as many first- graders as usual, from those who should have completed their first year in 1988 to those just starting this year. To help unclog the system, U.N. relief workers have developed a "crash course" for Grades 1 through 6 that crams a full 32-week school year into 20 weeks or less in order to advance as many children as quickly as possible...
...puny, coughing up sandbars that have blocked as many as 130 towboats and 3,000 giant river barges filled with paper, grain and chemicals headed for market. Around Greenville and Vicksburg, Miss., the Army engineers have had to dredge an emergency channel in the shrinking river to & unclog the bizarre traffic jam. At Memphis low water levels broke all the records that had been put down on the books going back to 1872. But where somebody is losing a buck, there is always an American hustler trying to make one. The Illinois Central Railroad has put on additional cars...
...anything been done to curb Nicaragua's chronic problems of mismanagement and inefficiency. Inflation threatens to reach quadruple digits, and such basics as eggs, onions and beef remain prohibitively expensive. Pet projects once showcased by the Sandinistas have withered, including programs to unclog sewers, remove garbage and fix up schools. Says Arturo Cruz, a former contra leader who now lives in Miami: "The Sandinistas were very good guerrillas, but they are disasters as economic managers...
More than half a million Americans die of heart attacks every year, because the nation hasn't learned to stop clogging its arteries, and medical science hasn't found a reliable way to unclog them. But judging by the activity at the annual conference of the American Heart Association (AHA) earlier this month, medical science may be gaining some ground, and Harvard may be leading...
...share much of the right-of-way of the old system. The first passengers will board in 1989, and by the year 2000, says the Los Angeles County transportation commission, 54,000 people will be riding the rails daily. Although a minute percentage of total traffic, they may help unclog Los Angeles' congested arteries...