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...highest figure since these statistics were first compiled in 1967. That strengthened indications that the September unemployment rate might have hit 10% for the first time since 1940. Already, politicians in both parties are referring to Friday, when the September rate will be announced, as Double-D (for double-digit...
...itself, a 10% rate would not be significantly higher than the 9.8% jobless rate for July and August. But double-digit unemployment could have important psychological consequences, since it would focus attention on the Democrats' most promising issue. In California, for example, 42% of the people responding to a recent poll named unemployment as the top concern in this fall's election; crime was a distant second at 22%. The Democratic state committee is distributing a newsletter labeled the "Reagan Recession Watch" to every Democrat running for any kind of office in California and to 60,000 party...
...been campaigning for Democratic candidates: "You get the darndest feeling out there that it's supposed to be patriotic to go broke." Republican Pollster Robert Teeter asserts: "People would almost rather wait six months and vote." Indeed, Democratic strategists may be overestimating the impact of double-digit joblessness...
...leaders on Capitol Hill, Reagan decided to reject the measure. "This bill would bust the budget by nearly a billion dollars," contended the President in a toughly worded message to Congress, alluding to the outlays for the domestic programs. "This simply is not tolerable in the face of triple-digit deficits...
Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...