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...Small Business Administration is trying to help American merchants ride out the crisis by establishing a $200 million assistance program that includes Government-backed loans at 14.5% interest. Many sinking border businessmen see this as scant support. "We don't want SBA aid," says Calexico furniture-store Manager Roberto Platero. "We can take care of our own if we could find some way to exchange the pesos." But a meeting of several U.S. and Mexican Governors in San Diego a week ago produced no solutions...
...reach an international operator were told brusquely to "please call later." Communications eventually were restored, but in rumor-rife Moscow, the event was unusual enough to prompt immediate speculation that a change of leadership, possibly involving ailing President Leonid Brezhnev, was in the works, even though there was scant evidence to support that conclusion...
...solicitous Gertrude. She speaks with feeling and understanding, and nicely fulfills the demands of the difficult Closet Scene. This is a perfectly credible portrayal, though I think an ideal Queen would show more sensuality. When Hamlet is duelling, the Queen is supposed to comment, "He's fat, and scant of breath." Coe has, however, changed the first adjective to "hot." The playwright's text tells us three things about the physical Hamlet--that he wears a beard, is 30 years old, and is fat (the role was written, after all, for the portly Richard Burbage, who first played Lear...
Reagan inspired scant confidence by using his press conference "to get a little more publicity for the American people to urge their Congressmen to adopt the constitutional amendment" requiring a balanced budget (see ESSAY). One reporter had an apt question: "[Aren't you] presiding over the biggest budget deficit in history and telling the American people, in effect, 'There ought to be a law against what I'm doing?' " Reagan insisted, fairly enough, that the big budget deficits cannot be laid solely "at an individual's door." Then he turned the question around, asking...
Even a to council of 15 Cardinals appointed last year to find ways to make up the Vatican's operating deficit was given only scant information about the bank...