Word: western
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...adhere to the debt policy held by both the United States and the Western commercial banks, such as Citibank, debtor nations had to impose harsh austerity measures to garner capital. Austerity measures entail raising taxes and reducing expenditures, very often by slashing the budgets of state-owned industries, lowering the subsidies of government provided products and raising the prices of bus fares and other state-run services...
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 has blamed Western banks such as Citicorp for greedily refusing to allow countries to restructure their debts. He even alleges that one of the causes of the U.S.'s staunch debt policy under Baker was the former Treasury Secretary's vested interest in Chemical Bank...
Fish has an amazing record. During his 13 years as the squash coach, he has compiled a 124-9 record, suffering only one non-Ivy loss during his tenure. In 1976, the Crimson lost to Western Ontario...
Knowledge is power, the saying goes. It can be dangerous, but it can just as easily be used wisely. "I do have faith," says Case Western's Murray. "Not that the judgment of people is always right, but that eventually we will preserve a good measure of fairness and justice. If we can absorb Copernicus and Galileo, if we can absorb Darwin and Freud, we can certainly absorb mapping the human genome...
...questions multiply as the science progresses. Thomas Murray, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University, acknowledges that some people are worried that a complete map of the genome might somehow "diminish our moral dignity . . . reduce us somehow to nothing more than the chemical constituents of our bodies." But knowing the entire sequence of DNA base pairs is like having the full musical notation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, he says. "In no way does that knowledge diminish the grandeur of the symphony itself...