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...farmers who've come out to meet Willey are neither heretics nor hayseeds but businessmen in a carpeted irrigation-district boardroom. They hem and haw in their own argot. They are worried, for instance, about load-flow relationships: if the government sets stringent new standards on selenium in their runoff, they may need to dilute it with the very water Willey is proposing to buy. Life is terribly uncertain. The regulatory agencies, they observe, "just agreed that water runs downhill about two months ago." The farmers also have this uneasy feeling that the environmentalists want them to save water...
...this reason, you must be particularly sweet when you reveal that striking workers did not load their baggage onto the plane. Tell them that they will get it back "soon," trying hard not to break out laughing...
...legacy: the failure of the so-called Baker plan, the 1985 policy designed to ease the debt burden of Third World nations. The 15 largest borrowers, most of them in Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed to pay off foreign debt, the Bush Administration decided that the time had come...
...past, some economists have argued that new money must be provided to make any meaningful dent in the debt load. Secretary Brady has not proposed earmarking any new U.S. funds to help solve the debt crisis. But Japanese Finance Minister Tatsuo Murayama last week pledged financial support for the Administration plan, though no numbers have yet been released...
...Mickey is obviously the most talented [player], but all of them have the potential to score," Anderson said. "They have to play unselfishly, moving the ball around and sharing the scoring load...