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...polls on Aug. 21, eager to register their complaints about corruption, crime, injustice to the poor, unemployment and unfulfilled government promises of a better standard of living. The January uprising by peasants in Chiapas, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate in March, a gradual downturn in the economy, and an outburst of drug shootings and kidnappings have convinced a large segment of Mexico's people that their society needs serious repair. Just a month ago, they appeared to resent the failures of the Salinas government so bitterly that many were ready to turn out his Institutional Revolutionary...
Fallows dismisses Tokyo's current economic downturn as nothing more than a temporary setback, similar to those that followed the huge boost in oil prices in 1972 and the rapid appreciation of the yen in 1985. Both times the Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will...
...Boeing continues to take the steps necessary to adjust to the market downturn...
...persisted since February, has troubled Wall Street watchers because it bears some of the hallmarks of the 1987 stock-market crash. That 508-point plunge on Black Monday was worsened by so-called portfolio insurance, which is computerized programs designed to bail investors out of stocks in a downturn by selling stock futures. But few buyers were willing to come forward while so many others rushed for the exits, and the decline accelerated instead of slowing down...
...just need more advertising and time," said Karin Berger of Renato's For Men. Although she also mentioned the post-holiday sales downturn as a reason for poor sales, she stressed that "in general" business in her shop "is pretty slow...