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Volume 341 Issue 6242, 12 October 1989

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  • This year's annual jamboree of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington two weeks ago has deservedly earned a bad press. Their neglect of poor countries' debts is their most serious failing.

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  • British universities cannot expand a second time without qualitative change.

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  • There needs to be an imaginative response to a Soviet offer to create an international centre on Lake Baikal.

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