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...sure, Bush sometimes acted as if he were secretly Buchanan's campaign manager. During the early months of the recession, Bush refused to even acknowledge that the country was suffering hard times. He made three hurried campaign swings in hard-hit New Hampshire but never attempted to mask the political expediency of his visits. Said he, with typical inelegance: "But the message -- I care." His deliberate attempts to mix with ordinary Americans seemed uncomfortable and awkward. Bush's poll numbers dropped every time he visited the state. Meanwhile, Buchanan exploited the President's decision to exclude a proposed $500 increase...
...academic market is an exception, said Wayne M. Ayers, chief economist at the Bank of Boston. The financial services industry, which attracted more than 18 percent of Harvard graduates last year, is especially hard-hit by the stalled economy, Ayers said...
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Congress passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits for those who were especially hard-hit by the recession. Bush vetoed it, and won a close battle to sustain the veto. The program was too expensive, he said, and unnecessary, because the economy had hit bottom and was rebounding. But despite his denials, the recession has been getting worse. Unemployment today is 6.8%, the highest rate since May, when Bush first began to promise that the United States was in recovery...
Increased consumer caution will have its victims. Lenders will have fewer eager borrowers. Automakers and retailers will suffer from slower sales as customers make do with what they have. Last week major retailers reported dismal revenues for the month of October. One hard-hit firm, J.C. Penney, said its sales fell 6.3% from the same month in 1989. Shoppers are particularly avoiding such discretionary items as clothing and furniture. At a time like this, consumers are apparently finding that the thrill of shopping is nothing compared with the satisfaction of paying off some debt on an overburdened credit card...
...focus has already produced results--more than 1000 newly registered Massachusetts voters, a success rate that student leaders are attributing in large part to concern over CLT. According to Jane Felton, president of the school's Democratic club, Tufts would be particularly hard-hit by the cuts in state scholarship funds that the referendum will cause...