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...consensus among most Harvard participants was that the percentage of males and other minorities who did attend seemed to exceed that of April's march, and that, at least, was encouraging...
This is not the picture of the crack epidemic portrayed by the nightly news. On TV, crack addicts are almost invariably blacks and Hispanics from the ghetto. In real life, the problem is much broader: the number of white middle- and upper-class crack users may equal -- or even exceed -- the total from poor minority communities. No government studies break down crack use by economic status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers...
...increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
...then, early estimates of as many as 250 fatalities had begun to look far too high. Only 34 bodies had been extracted from the rubble as of Saturday, , and officials theorized that the freeway death toll might not exceed 85, still a catastrophic number...
Although Detroit railed against the proposed standards, the fact is that some cars already meet or exceed part of the requirements. Reason: automakers have complied since 1983 with California's pollution laws, which are the strictest in the U.S. and will become even tighter in the 1990s, when they are to serve as models for the rest of the country. Such 1989 cars as the South Korean-built Pontiac LeMans and Japan's Nissan Maxima emit less than 0.2 gram of nitrogen oxide per mile. At the same time, Chrysler sells its California dealers a $100 pump that helps cars...