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Least Eternal Punishment "Lifetime" bans on Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson and U.S. long jumper Larry Myricks for using performance-enhancing drugs proved short-lived. The sanctions were lifted by their respective nations' sports officials -- in plenty of time for the athletes to enter the 1992 Olympics...
...promise of unspecified increases in wages and improved social benefits. Morocco's ills, however, are not easily fixed. Under an austerity program drawn up by the badly indebted country, only 15,210 new jobs will be created next year -- meager pickings for the 350,000 young Moroccans who will enter the labor market...
...realization that preserving the biosphere can also save money might be the salvation of the environmental movement if the industrial world should enter a deep recession. It is true that war or an economic downturn might divert resources that could otherwise be used for such projects as restoring wetlands and rivers. But Denis Hayes, the leading organizer of Earth Day, argues that hard times might have the positive benefit of causing people and businesses to change their throwaway mentalities and adopt a more conserving approach...
...Enter Bill Bennett, academician, Education Secretary in the Reagan Administration, ex-head of Bush's antidrug program. Like Bush, Bennett had stumped for Helms. In his first statements as the designated G.O.P. chairman, Bennett defended Helms' campaign strategy as "perfectly legitimate." He also criticized affirmative-action programs generally. After all, he had co- authored a 1979 book called Counting by Race, which argued, "Quite simply, numerical equality is an unworthy means for a people dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
Another effect of globalization: rather than waiting months or years before being released outside the country, American movies and television programs are beginning to enter the foreign marketplace in their infancy and even at birth -- and boosting profits. Universal opened Back to the Future II in the U.S., Europe and Japan simultaneously. The film made more than $300 million, and the receipts were available months earlier than usual, accruing millions of dollars in interest...