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Business may pick up as the holiday draws nearer and memories of Black Monday grow fuzzier. But consumer confidence is getting no boost right now from the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average took several dizzying downward steps last week, including a 76.93-point drop on Monday that ranked as the eighth largest one-day fall ever. For the week, it tumbled 143.74 points to close at 1766.74. The Dow is now just 28 points above its Oct. 19 nadir, and broader indexes of U.S. stocks are performing even worse. Shares on the American Exchange and over-the-counter...
...noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal ball more than a couple of years out. The farther you look, the fuzzier it gets." But for most of Colorado Springs, the future, fuzzy or otherwise...
...rating of American metropolises, they write, "is like a snapshot of a moving target." No picture is fuzzier than that of No. 1 Pittsburgh. It received no outstanding marks in eight categories--its best was seventh in education--and it accumulated no low ones. "Pittsburgh is like the Steelers' front line," observes Boyer. "Not incredibly strong in any one area, but consistently good overall...
...White House employee voluntarily gave the Reagan staff the Carter papers the question of whether they should have been used becomes fuzzier. Not even former Carter aides could say with certainty what they would have done if similar Reagan material had reached them. Indeed, trying to find out about an opponent's campaign strategy is a political commonplace...
Most CUE faculty members perceive the committee as a "forum" where students and faculty interact, but as Henderson points out, that is hard to do when the faculty don't show up. Herrnstein is fuzzier about the purpose of CUE. After a long pause, he ventured that CUE is "a point of contact for whatever reasons...