Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...been serving a sentence, being hounded and living under a cloud. I'd give him credit for time served." Milken's attorney, Arthur Liman, is expected to plead for leniency on the ground that his client made an "enormous" contribution to the U.S. economy by using junk bonds to help finance hundreds of companies and create thousands of jobs...
What Bush is doing is all he can -- or should -- do. He has publicly thanked President Hafez Assad for his help in freeing Polhill, boosting the Syrian's prestige. He has passed the word that he is ready to talk with Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani. This sort of thing makes it easier for Syria and Iran to put pressure on the terrorists holding the hostages...
...since it fell into Moscow's orbit in 1921. The most basic commodities are in scarce supply -- even meat, despite the fact that Mongolia has more than six times as many sheep as people. Half the meat production is exported in exchange for Soviet goods and loans. The exports help repay Mongolia's $5.5 billion foreign debt...
...March 11 declaration of independence. Lithuanians are interpreting the proposed suspension to refer only to legislation passed after March 11, while Moscow reads it to include suspension of the declaration itself. The no-retreat camp still has the upper hand in Vilnius, but the artful Western nudge might help move both sides closer to talks...
Mammoth federal interest payments may help explain the strange politics of the federal deficit. Why have so many conservatives made their peace with it? The standard conspiracy theory is that they see the deficit as a way to hold down spending. But here is an alternative conspiracy theory: interest on the debt is a $179 billion social-welfare program for owners of capital, who tend to be conservatives. Or, at least, all those interest payments make the thought of the Government's going deeply into debt more acceptable to certain people than the alternative: that the Government might...