Word: mays
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Consensus may be difficult to attain after the polarized election campaign. ; The runoff contest narrowed the 21-candidate field to Collor and a gritty dark-horse opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a union leader and former industrial lathe operator who heads the leftist Workers' Party. Lula pounded away at populist themes -- he warned Collor that his landholdings would be subject to agrarian reform -- and outpointed the young conservative in the first of two televised debates. Toward the campaign's close, Collor took the low road, airing campaign spots that featured the married Lula's former lover...
Noriega's increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug...
Evidence of his erratic behavior first emerged after an aborted coup attempt against him in March 1988. Reports circulated that Noriega had taken to the bottle and occasionally drank himself into a stupor. In the months after he violently halted last May's presidential election, Noriega -- perhaps prudently -- saw himself as a marked man. He refused to sleep in the same place on consecutive nights and, as a precaution against being poisoned, ate only food prepared by his girlfriend's mother...
...have to do more in the 1990s than gloat over the demise of communism," says Felix Rohatyn, the Wall Street investment banker. "That demise may be due to our ideas, but the way we are now exploiting those ideas is not making us competitive with the Europeans and the Japanese. Our cities are really falling apart; our educational system is in great disarray; and in order to finance our budget and trade deficits, we're selling more and more of our businesses. Our Government is unable to govern because it has no money, or it is using the fact that...
...deregulation (a program actually begun by Jimmy Carter in airlines, trucking and banking). He regarded that as "getting the Government off people's backs," and it involved not just a reduction in official regulations but also a relaxation in law enforcement ranging from antitrust to safety regulations. That may have been beneficial, but it enabled lots of sharp characters to make lots of money in lots of sharp ways. The most extreme example is the savings and loan scandal, which features fraud, bribery, favoritism and freewheeling incompetence. Some 800 of the 2,600 remaining S&Ls are now insolvent...