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CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: U.S. Commerce Dept.}]CAPTION: INDEX OF LEADING INDICATORS...
With just one month before voters go to the polls, the nation's economic indicators flashed yellow last week. The New York City-based Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell 2.6 points in September, its third drop in a row. The Commerce Department revealed that its index of leading indicators fell 0.2% in August. And the latest unemployment figures showed a tiny 0.1% improvement, to 7.5%. President Bush proclaimed it "very good news." Labor Secretary Lynn Martin was more precise: "It is good that the news is not awful...
...English Car meeting, she is softspoken as she reads aloud a nonfiction passage about trees and shrubs. She waves her hands gracefully, occasionally lifting her index finder for emphasis...
There are 160 countries on the United Nations' annual development index, a measure of comparative economic and political progress: 32 of the lowest 40 are in Africa. Between 1960 and 1989, Africa's share of the world's gross national product dropped from 1.9% to 1.2%. Since 1980, sub-Saharan Africa's external debt has tripled to about $174 billion...
...paradise is in trouble. "Forever, or so it seems," says sociologist Mark Baldassare, who has studied Orange County for 10 years, "this place was on the steepest of upward curves. But today, with every index down, the people who thought they were immune to recessions, the Republican white collar workers, have been caught. Bush will likely carry the county again, but if he doesn't get a 300,000-vote plurality here, there's no way he'll take California." And that, says Representative Robert Dornan, one of the county's five Congressmen, "is iffy at best, unless there...