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...relatively modest proportions of Friday's stock rally may have reflected the realization that while the November trade figure was a welcome $ improvement, it hardly signaled an end to America's stubborn deficit dilemma. Standing at $159 billion through the first eleven months of the year, the 1987 deficit has already surpassed the record $156.2 billion imbalance of 1986. As recently as 1981, the U.S. trade gap was only $34.6 billion...
...dilemma is no less uncomfortable for the local residents. Dror, who speaks Arabic fluently, asks shopkeepers why their stores are closed. Says one: "I got a telephone call reminding me that there is a commerce strike for 21 days to protest the expulsions and killings." The call came from the Shabiba, a P.L.O.-affiliated youth group. A major instructs Dror, "Tell them to open the shops. Tell them we shall weld their doors shut and not let them open for a week." He points to welding instruments. Ten minutes later most shops are open. Grumbles one Arab: "The Shabiba will...
...stabilize the drooping dollar over the long term is through fundamental economic changes, notably by reducing the federal budget deficit. Without such measures, the Fed may eventually be forced to support the dollar by putting upward pressure on U.S. interest rates. But that step presents a painful election-year dilemma for Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, particularly in the wake of October's stock crash, since any rise in interest rates might send the U.S. and world economies into a recession...
That, in the long run, is the ethical dilemma of the Hollywood junket. Our intrepid reporter face down in the gutter: He left his heart and GPA in San Francisco and his dinner on the floor of his hotel room...
...Wednesday, Oct. 14, the stock market, shocked by disappointing trade figures, suffered its first big quake -- a record 95.46 drop in the Dow. That posed a dilemma for Lynch and his wife Carolyn, 41, a physical therapist. They had long been planning to leave on Oct. 15 for a trip to Ireland. "Should we do this?" they asked each other. But Lynch rarely took long vacations, and he was especially reluctant to cancel this one. Though his roots are as Irish as homespun Donegal tweed, he had never been to the home of his ancestors. Besides, could an avid golfer...