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...inflation predicted to reach 500 percent by year’s end. Because of land seizure and redistribution, agricultural production has dropped off by 67 percent, leaving over half of Zimbabwe’s 12 million inhabitants slowly starving. All food and produce now have price controls and correspondingly dire shortages—leaving them eerily and fatally absent from grocery shelves, leaving millions desperate for food...
...forum marked the release of the book, A Nation Reformed?, a 20-year update of the 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk,” which proclaimed a dire need for rigorous educational reform...
...shocking to hear?? such a dire?? prophesy from a scholar like Swain, who is rapidly establishing herself as? one of the leaders of a new,? increasingly vocal? neoconservative brand of black political analysis that? rejects affirmative action and reparations for slavery and holds blacks responsible for their own uplift. Until recently, most left-leaning black theorists derided her as a hopeless optimist. Her previous book, "Black Faces, Black Interests," ruffled many black politicians by dismissing their fear that a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race in the creation of majority black congressional districts would...
...council members, who said they have been aware of the impending budget problems for some time, said they believe the situation is far from dire...
...this new proposal, the richest one percent of Americans would be granted more tax relief than the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. Surely, making the first perogative in tax cuts easing the burden of the rich is not the most effective way to aid citizens who are in dire need of economic relief. Ironically, putting money in the hands of the poorest Americans—who would spent it more quickly than the rich—would do more to boost demand and increase job growth, the President’s proclaimed goal...