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...avert damage to the state economy, Arizona Governor Rose Mofford is suggesting that the legislature consider approving a King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the state calendar King-free...
...practices. There is also growing concern about the number of branches being closed by big banks in minority neighborhoods. That's why black leaders went all out to rescue Freedom, as they had once before. In 1975, 11 area banks and foundations supplied $4 million in emergency funds to avert a collapse...
...avert it? My recommendation would be to spike the water with Prozac. Just mix it in with the fluoride. I'm serious! Highly diluted, of course, and tapering off after just a few months, as soon as we get off this gloom-and- doom kick. Because more than we'd like to think, economic and financial swings are creatures of fuzzy, nonquantitative things like psychology, confidence and the national mood...
...avert such a disaster, the networks are looking for ways to reduce programming costs. Reality shows like NBC's Unsolved Mysteries and CBS's Top Cops are becoming more common, partly because they are cheaper to produce. Other cost-saving measures may be on the way: co-productions with overseas broadcasters, more live programming, and series that air more than once a week (an idea NBC flirted with for its new sitcom Parenthood). Meanwhile, the multipart mini-series, once a staple of the "sweeps" periods, has been virtually abandoned because of its exorbitant cost...
WORLD: Bush gambles that doubling his troops in the Persian Gulf may avert...