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Such are the signs of a crime wave that is surging through southern Florida. Crime rates are continuing to climb nationwide: in 1979, according to FBI statistics, the overall rate of serious crime (murder, robbery, forcible rape and theft) jumped 9% over 1978, and for the first six months of 1980 it rose by 10% over the same period last year. But southern Florida has a special problem. In Miami overall crime jumped 21% during the first half of 1980 over 1979 figures; the murder rate alone soared 70%, from 134 in all of 1979 to 201 so far this...
...sofa. There is no stage or seats, so the audience sits on the floor amongst the actresses. In some productions, mixing actors and audience serves a legitimate theatrical value; in Uncommon Women, there is no purpose to such an arrangement. Not only is it inconvenient for the actors to climb over the audience in order to move from the living room to the dining room to the sofa, but the seating is quite uncomfortable when there is a full house...
...sitting ducks chose the same route back into the race--exploiting their status as special targets to complain of outside interference in the elections. And the strategy has been effective; in every race the incumbents have at least managed to climb back into the fight...
...unemployment picture has also begun to brighten. Normally, jobless rates continue to climb for many months after a slump bottoms out. But unemployment in the current downturn eased from a July peak of 7.8% to 7.5% in September, the lowest since April. Meanwhile, Commerce Department figures show that the economy as a whole expanded at an annual rate of 1% during July, August and September. Whether or not that poky growth can be taken as proof that the recession has passed, it does represent a sharp turn-around from the previous three months, when the nation's output...
...most immediate threat to the economy this time around is the renewed climb in interest rates, which dropped during the spring and early summer but have once again begun marching upward. High interest rates reduce the willingness of consumers to go into debt, and that spells big trouble not only for manufacturers of major household appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators, but even more so for homebuilders and automakers, who to gether account one way or another for about 20% of G.N.P...