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...sent the commercial real estate industry into an out-and-out depression. The glut of empty office towers could take a decade or more to pare down. Beset by the | speculative hangover, the economy has expanded just 2.6% from 1989 through mid-1991. Economists predict that the economy will bump along at a sluggish pace of less than 3% a year through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: America's Run-Down Economy A Slump That Won't Go Away | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...minimal resistance as the Trumps and Keatings crunch over us, car phones in hand, on the way to their bankruptcy hearings and leveraged buyouts. Indeed, it seems part of the American Dream to become rich enough to wrap oneself in so much tanklike armor that one barely feels the bump of the riffraff undertire. But now that dream is under attack, according to an organization calling itself the Coalition for Vehicle Choice. According to the coalition, a collection of the usual well- meaning but misguided dupes, liberals, Congressmen, pessimists and wimps is threatening to make us all drive weenie cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caution: We Brake for Newton | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...communal intimacy of live theater, for one; at first the piece sounds more like a rant from across the street than like the compassionate campfire chat it was. But as Search for Signs reaches its climax, artist and author stride over these nettles. If this isn't a goose-bump experience for you, you're just not sentient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Side Trips into Daydream | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...scariest prospect of this new violence is that ordinary American citizens are hiring hit-men to bump off their enemies, their competition and anyone they don't really like...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...person. Well, it's pretty hard to work for somebody for five months and never meet. It is Dave's office, and Dave's show. He's there all the time, and actually, it's quite impossible to work for Dave for more than a week and not physically bump into him--or be hit by something he has thrown through the hallway...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: The First Line of Defense Against America's Nuts: | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

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