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...glut has never been so thick. Povich, former host of A Current Affair, is just one of half a dozen newcomers elbowing their way into a field already crowded with such long-distance runners-off-at-the-mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed...
...left behind structural burdens that are likely to rob the U.S. of robust growth for several years. Among them: record federal deficits (the past fiscal year: $285 billion) and an orgy of overbuilding that has sent the commercial real estate industry into an out-and-out depression. The glut of empty office towers could take a decade or more to pare down. Beset by the | speculative hangover, the economy has expanded just 2.6% from 1989 through mid-1991. Economists predict that the economy will bump along at a sluggish pace of less than 3% a year through...
...frightened took another path: The urban riots of the late '60s and the busing fights of the early '70s were the last straw for an already frustrated white middle class. White flight resulted in a huge real estate turnover in middle class urban neighborhoods, the housing glut drove prices down, and working class whites or middle and working class Blacks inherited the neighborhoods...
College officials interviewed yesterday attributed the lapse--which is in violation of state law--to a combination of vandalism, red tape and a glut of administrative paperwork...
...glut of lawyers, as Quayle pointed out, is a peculiarly American phenomenon. The standard defense is offered by Vanderbilt Law School professor Harold Levinson, who says, "We ask more of our legal system, perhaps more than any other country in the world." True, the courts have a broad mandate in everything from the environment to civil rights, but blaming the legal system for the nation's disproportionate number of lawyers is a somewhat circular argument...