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...seeking to explain the outbreak, some analysts pointed to the area's economic distress. Unemployment in Handsworth, for instance, stands at 36%, nearly three times the national average. Yet even the Labor Party opposition was reluctant to ascribe the rampage purely to economic conditions, and Thatcher, for her part, rejected the notion outright. She denounced those who blamed the riot on unemployment as "Moaning Minnies...
Foreign matters are striking home because a flood of high-quality and attractively priced imports continues to wash over the U.S., crippling entire industries and putting millions of Americans out of work. The clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth...
Immigrant parents, however insistent, are not always successful in excluding distracting American influences. Le Vinh's jet black hair is cut in a moderate punk style, and he sports fashionable, wide-shouldered jackets, to his father's distress. "He would have me in the preppie look," says Vinh with disdain. Retorts Le Giau: "When I went to school we wore uniforms." Imelda Ortiz finds herself in a tug-of-war with her mother over American teens' signature apparel: tight jeans. "My mom says I look like a Solid Gold dancer and makes me take them off," complains Imelda. "She looks...
Short of a bomb, indeed, experts were hard put to explain the disaster. Even if the pilot had lost all four engines simultaneously, aviation sources pointed out, he could have sent a distress signal and possibly continued to glide for 30 minutes. And even if his power source had been cut, he could have used a backup system. In addition, officials observed, sudden disappearances from radar and crashes at sea are very rare. Never before has a commercial jet crossing the Atlantic plunged into the ocean...
Walker worked for two years in the Norfolk branch of Wackenhut, a national firm providing industrial security services. While there he was sued for inflicting "emotional distress" by a wealthy Virginia Beach couple who claimed that Walker snooped around their home in varied disguises: as a birdwatcher wearing a green bag with eyeholes over his head and carrying a telescope; as a Boy Scout leader looking for a place to camp; as a Catholic priest. Next, Walker went into business for himself, digging up evidence in divorce cases and probing phony insurance claims. He also swept business offices for hidden...