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Predictably, consumers are less enthusiastic in areas where unemployment has climbed well above the national average of 8.9%. In hard-pressed Maine, surveys by the Bangor Daily News and Brunswick Times-Record show that many rebates are being saved or used to pay off debts. In Buffalo, where the jobless rate has reached 14.5%, a large savings bank reports that 150 to 200 rebate checks are being deposited each day. Such activity does not necessarily hurt the economy. Checks that are saved and used to buy consumer goods later will help spread the economic stimulus over a longer period...
...effectiveness of some of these campaigns remains to be seen. Though many consumers seem ready to spend, they are not yet going for big-ticket appliances like color TV sets, and even less for new cars. Echoing the view of many in the depressed auto industry, Bangor Dodge Dealer Phillip McFarland says that the rebates have done nothing for his business. "I just don't think it's that important to an individual when he's buying a car," he adds...
...arrival of the orphans did stir emotion, but many question the wisdom of any wholesale removal of children from their own culture. The Bangor Daily News suggests bringing 56,000 Vietnamese orphans to the U.S.-one for every American who died there...