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Nationally, the numbers were good as well for the weekend. Fine jewelery and men's sportswear sales rose by double-digit percentages from a year earlier. Sales from speciality stores in 26 big malls around the country rose nine percent over the same period last year...
...offing. Having suffered the second-worst showing of his 16 congressional campaigns during the September primary voting, Foley finds himself in the toughest race of his career. Yet only recently has he begun to campaign in earnest, mounting an uncharacteristically aggressive attack that has reduced his opponent's double- digit lead...
...scenarios also rely on health insurance costs growing only six percent a year, "compared with the double digit growth of the recent past," Healy admitted. And the projections expect that city pension costs will grow at just 10 percent a year...
...York's Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo has overtaken his GOP challenger George Pataki and raced ahead with a double digit lead, two polls show. In mid-October, Cuomo was trailing Pataki by nearly ten points andAlbany was gearing up for Republican purge. But today a New York Post-Fox 5 TV poll had Cuomo up by 15 points and a New York Times-WCBS TV poll had Cuomo up by 10 points.Post to 1994 Elections...
...economic justification. The quickening expansion is pouring money into state coffers; overall tax collections are running 6% ahead of the past fiscal year. Sales-tax receipts are especially strong; for all 50 states they rose 8% in the second quarter over the 1993 period, and 18 states had double-digit increases. In some states, the growth of spending has slowed, thanks to brutal cuts enacted, along with heavy tax increases, to keep budgets balanced during and immediately after the 1990-91 recession (48 states are required by law to balance their budgets every year...