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...amounts to little more than a thinly veiled effort by affluent and largely white neighborhoods to exclude strangers while boosting the value of their homes. Observes San Diego's Sanford Goodkin: "A stranger is defined as anyone who bought a house the day after I did." He and others claim that the effect of growth controls will be most severe on the poor, cutting jobs and investment in their neighborhoods. But developers have never been eager to build in poorer areas, and many of those neighborhoods are equally concerned about congestion. In Los Angeles, Proposition U passed by large margins...
Gorbachev moved swiftly to claim the middle ground, telling Soviet editors, "We are frequently criticized by some from the right and some from the left." Referring indirectly to last year's ouster of Boris Yeltsin as head of the Moscow Communist Party organization, he denied that the move was a setback for reform. He indicated that Yeltsin, once a close ally, had pushed too hard for sweeping changes. As for criticism from the right, Gorbachev insisted that his initiatives were actually strengthening socialism rather than creating a Western-style "private-owner mentality" -- something that could not develop, he argued...
...economic background should serve him well. Despite a spectacular average annual growth rate of more than 9% over the past two decades, Taiwan's economy now stands at a potentially hazardous crossroads. With an average manufacturing wage of $535 a month, the country can no longer claim to offer cheap labor by Asian standards, yet it has been slow to invest in higher- technology fields. Exports of textiles, a key industry, last year grew by an impressive 23%. But other sectors have been hurt by a 40% rise since late 1985 in the value of the New Taiwan dollar against...
These age-old images of Iowa, however, die hard. Even the candidates, who routinely feign enthusiasm while touring hogpens, foster the hayseed stereotypes. Although their state dominates the news in the closing weeks before the caucuses, Iowans can rightly claim to be misunderstood. Four myths in particular color popular assumptions about the state and its voters...
...Iowa indeed? It is fine for David Oman, the co-chairman of the state Republican Party, to claim, "Iowa is a good place to start. This is mid- America, and most of us live in small towns. The state is very open, clean and fair. There are no political-machine bosses to dominate the debate, and we are very much a two-party state with a level playing field." All true, and these high-minded attributes taken by themselves would be enough to make Iowa the Miss Congeniality of presidential politics. But Midwestern hospitality, admirable as it may be, does...