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...repealed the business cycle or deleted the threat of inflation. But it has, at the very least, ended the sway of decline theorists and the "limits to growth" crowd, ranging from the Club of Rome Cassandras to more recent doomsayers convinced that America's influence was destined to wane...
...late 1995, it looked as though the epidemic in southern Sudan was beginning to wane. Seaman and the MSF staff had treated about 19,000 patients, principally by administering daily injections of Pentostam. Keeping track of up to 1,400 patients at a time, most of whom were unable to read, required the creation of a massive card-filing system and the training of a competent local staff. Family members were taught to fill syringes to lines marked with tape and then to administer the doses themselves. "Jill Seaman has treated more cases of kala-azar than anyone else...
According to Marty Xaifaris, a former member of the Democratic National Committee and a strong Harshbarger supporter, Cellucci's appeal to urban voters will begin to wane as soon as the issues become more focused...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Instituted in 1986, the 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentencing was meant to target crime, not color. But with crack-related violence on the wane, President Clinton agreed Tuesday to ease off on a policy many activists call racist because it imposes far heavier penalties on crack users, who are more likely to be black. Under the plan put forth by Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the disparity will be reduced to 10-to-1: five years would be the mandatory sentence for selling 25 grams of crack...
While we appreciate the University's attempts to control costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wane due to the competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. The new contract for Local 254, Harvard's union of custodial workers, is a case in point: older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans to make room for new employees who will be paid far less...