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...drinkers also completed six other tests hourly: walking a white line with their hands held at shoulder level, reading tongue twisters over a public-address system, catching a tennis ball on cue, remembering a four-digit number and reciting it backwards, testing handwriting by writing "Without a doubt I can definitely drink and drive" and making a trip through a computer-game simulation of night driving...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Free Alcohol | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

...article on double-digit unemployment failed to touch upon the most significant cause. A large percentage of the unemployed formerly worked in heavy industry or businesses directly dependent on it. Unfortunately, a major portion of America's basic industries can no longer compete with foreign suppliers. Until workers deliver more productivity and quality for their wages, unemployment will remain high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1982 | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

Canada's economic problems are substantial. Unemployment is at a record 12.2%. The inflation rate is also double digit: 10.6%. Between January and September, 8,074 Canadian businesses went bankrupt, the worst rate since the 1930s. The gross domestic product dropped 7.8% from June 1981 to July 1982. Foreign debt soared from $23.1 billion in 1970 to $73.3 billion last year. Of that, $54.6 billion is owed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Facing a Winter of Discontent | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...local votes, the candidates are debating a thousand points of personality and parochial concerns. But on every husting, one national issue is dominating all others: the state of the recession-ridden economy, and especially the 10.1% unemployment rate. Democrats everywhere are seeking to pin the blame for double-digit unemployment squarely on Reagan. On national TV, the President last week took the issue headon, an action he had been avoiding. In a sober address from the Oval Office that was considerably more effective than his stump speeches on behalf of Republican candidates, Reagan attempted to assure the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Jobs Issue | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Arkansas G.O.P. Chairman Bob Cohee sees it differently: "I don't think 10% is any magic number." In Michigan, which has had double-digit unemployment since 1980 and is now first in the nation at 15.9%, State G.O.P. Chairman Mel Larsen predicts, "I don't think it's going to have that big an impact here. The rest of the country is just catching up to us." But Yale University Political Scientist Edward Tufte suggests that the issue could cost Republicans as many as 40 congressional seats next month. Says he: "Local factors like personality are Important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating Gloom to the Punch | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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