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...reason is fear that gargantuan budget and trade deficits may yet cause prosperity to fizzle. But there is also a feeling that something is wrong with the boom, that general prosperity is not bringing as much of the good life as the rosy numbers indicate. Though the wealthy are doing noticeably better, - most middle-class Americans feel squeezed. They are struggling harder -- and often depending on two incomes when one sufficed for their parents -- to pay for housing, tuition and other expenses that have gone up much faster than inflation...
True enough -- but not good enough. For while the gains made by the rich have been spectacular, those of the middle class have been barely sufficient, and those of the poor not quite sufficient, to get them back where they were twelve to 15 years ago. So the gap between rich and poor is still growing -- to its widest point in 40 years, according to the calculations of some liberal economists. And that trend is alarming. Whether or not it influences this year's election, it could, if it continues, threaten the American Dream itself...
DESCRIPTION: Two charts: Voter preference for George Bush and for Michael Dukakis, August 1988 and late September 1988; percentage of voters who feel United States is in good shape, October 1984-September...
Receivers: Sam Brickley owns Ithaca's best pair of hands. He leads the Big Red in receiving with 11 catches (good for 129 yards). Brickley is fourth on the Conrell all-time receiving list with 78 receptions. Other Red menaces include Frank Monago (seven catches, 130 yards) and Mike Ready (seven catches, 54 yards...
...example, water shortages may be particularly serious in the agricultural areas of the Great Plains if the dry weather continues, as many climatologists suspect. Traditionally dry--the whole area was once known as the Great American Desert--it has become enormously productive through irrigation and crop improvement. But a good deal of the water bodies there are now polluted by fertilizer nitrates and pesticides. Should the drop in the water table continue, safe drinking water may become increasingly scarce...