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...rituals of all the people of the earth." And that is what he spent most of this time doing. He "intruded" throughout Europe for 15 years, and he takes the reader on a highlighted tour of the continent. In Tangiers, he tried marijuana at the Casbali, the famous Morrocean sector of the city. He led one of the first camera crews to explore the abandoned French prison on Devils Island. And MacNeil single-handedly brought American television the facts behind the legend of the witch of western Ireland, Biddy Early...
...adds M.I.T.'s Phyllis Wallace, "the shocking thing is that most families with black women as heads are impoverished, and nearly half of all black children are in these families. The problem is how to improve the chance for these women to get jobs in the private sector." Women in black families almost always had to work...
...indecisiveness and the pressures of the P.R.I.'s political machine, he was unable to hold firm on a wage freeze required to reap the anti-inflationary benefits of the devaluation. Within weeks, all government employees were given a 30% wage hike, and the government "recommended" that private-sector employers grant their workers increases of 10%, 20% or 30% "to restore purchasing power." In a single stroke, Lopez Portillo had wiped out most of the gains of the devaluation that had shaken his administration-and lost much of the prestige of his office. As he dolefully told one audience...
...historical comparisons with Jubail is daunting. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, 100,000 laborers struggled for 20 years to construct the Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle...
...York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust calculates that federal loans could consume no less than 92.1% of net national saving this year. Worse, Kellner predicts that in 1983 Government borrowing might take fully 113% of the year's net saving, siphoning money out of virtually every sector of the economy to help keep the Government's finances afloat...