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...economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time to time but never any present danger. Now, however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
From a distance, the church looks like a huge granite amphitheater, a scaled-down version of Chicago's McCormick Place. The first half-hour of the weekend service is devoted to such attractions as Christian rock music, drama and multimedia slide shows. Parishioners sit in posh theater seats rather than pews. When pastor Bill Hybels, 37, finally appears on the stage wearing a natty business suit and button-down collar, his message sounds more entrepreneurial than churchy. Preaching from a Plexiglas lectern, he talks about "taking risks" to be Christians and the "user value" of doctrinal studies...
Advertisers are designing commercials to appeal to that vast and fast- growing group of consumers over 50. These citizens have plenty of cash, which few of them need to spend on baby-sitters or mortgages. Americans 50 and older control $130 billion in discretionary spending power, or half the annual U.S. disposable income. Says Hal Margolis, group senior vice president for the Lintas:Campbell-Ewald ad agency's Michigan office: "For a long time, no one in this business was paying any attention at all to people over 49. Then some of us started looking at the demographics...
...cash payments. By the time the plot was exposed, Brown says, he had given MacDonald $75,000 in cash and use of a $55,000 BMW. Most of MacDonald's fellow Navajos did not share in his good fortune; they continue to live their old, hardscrabble life. Fully half of all Navajo homes, for example, have no electricity or flush toilets...