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There are currently J.O.A.s in 22 cities throughout the country, including Cincinnati, San Francisco and Seattle, and no application has ever been denied. But Detroit presents an unusual case. By far the biggest consolidation ever proposed (worth $300 million in annual advertising and circulation revenues), the Detroit J.O.A. would last for an initial term of 100 years, twice the life-span of most others. The result, warns Michigan State Senator John F. Kelly, would be a dangerous precedent. "If the J.O.A. is approved in Detroit," he declares, "there's no way any other J.O.A. in any other city...
...many other school districts, has no alternative programs for the losers, most of whom simply vanish into a festering underclass of unemployables. Nationally the dropout rate for the past three years has hovered around 1 million -- the equivalent of dumping the entire pupil population of New York City, biggest in the U.S., onto the nation's trash heap every year. Very few ever drop back in. Most of the others are lost forever, not only to the school system but to society at large. The battle to prevent those losses has never been more difficult. Old-style pedagogy simply does...
...when the corner gas station was leveled and replaced by an ugly mini- mall, Morris revolted. "My life has become an endurance test," he moans. He is now a zealous activist in the biggest grass-roots political movement to hit California since the property tax revolt a decade ago. A new battle cry -- Slow Growth -- is erupting from once placid neighborhoods plagued with congested streets and schools. Fed up with sprawling condos, office towers and mini-shopping centers plunked down among single-family houses, residents are demanding limits on unbridled real estate development. The state may never be the same...
...biggest front-loading rebellion for 1988 occurred in the South, where Tory Democrats have suffered terminal frustration over the liberal influence of Iowa and New Hampshire. They conspired to construct Super Tuesday, March 8, when 14 Southern and Border states will choose a fourth of the Democratic (and nearly a third of the Republican) delegates. The intent was to diminish the impact of Iowa and New Hampshire, forcing candidates to court moderate voters elsewhere. Yet most candidates in both parties have wooed Iowa and New Hampshire more intently than ever, fearing that bad showings would cripple them before they could...
...scheme was undone by its own success. When the stock market began to dive, all the portfolio insurers started selling futures at once. As the price of the futures collapsed, the stocks followed suit. That triggered further selling by the portfolio insurers, reinforcing the downward spiral. One of the biggest, Wells Fargo, sold $1.6 billion in futures on Black Monday alone. This was more than the market could absorb. Says Capital's Kirby: "It's like a guy driving into a parking lot with the Queen Mary and asking, 'How come these guys haven't provided a space...