But the severe recession from which we are still recovering has caused serious budget problems for many state and local governments, which fund the vast majority of the costs of public elementary through high school education.

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Still Schlosstein agrees with Woolley that Wall Street has problems, many of which derive from its size.

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Marta Cecilia Guapacha, the head nurse at the town's San Francisco hospital, says that she has treated many cases of poisoning, skin rashes and respiratory and eye problems which she believes to be caused by herbicides sprayed by police crop-dusting planes.

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