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...percent of Black families and over half of all Hispanic families, they pose the greatest challenge in terms of achieving racial equality and opportunity. More than any other part of America, cities raise fundamental questions for this country's future: Whether America's increasingly service-oriented economy can absorb low-killed workers; whether this society can deal with welfare dependency and the growth of an under class; whether there is a will and a capacity to rebuild a decaying infrastructure; whether government policies can effectively shape market forces to improve the environment...
...large problem: how does one prevent the subject from taking over the whole book?-Foggage.Patrick McGinley's third novel, features the incestuous love of a twin brother and sister living in the Irish country side. Luckily for the reader. McGinley is to skillful to allow the incest itself to absorb the story. His matter-of-fact treatment of the details of their love and a well-crafted plot keep the story from being bogged down by free-floating sentiment or shapeless descriptions of characters. McGinley's polse, skill, detachment, and emotional thoroughness make this novel, remote through it is from...
...testimony before Congress last week, Volcker backed Feldstein's approach to attacking the deficit. Said the Federal Reserve chairman: "If you can not do it on the spending side, you have got to do it on the revenue side." Volcker said that the economy could absorb a tax increase of about $35 billion without danger to the recovery...
Even the wisdom of the Kissinger commission ignores the key problem in Central America, a runaway birth rate too great for the countries to absorb. Until that situation is brought under control, Marxism will continue to appeal to the hungry, illiterate masses...
...petroleum, a result of its 1982 purchase of Marathon Oil, and only 31% from steel. Last week, though, U.S. Steel took a giant leap back to basics. Directors approved the purchase of National Steel, the seventh-largest maker, for $575 million in cash and stock. U.S. Steel will also absorb some $460 million in long-term National debt, making the total buy-out worth $1 billion...