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Many believed the recession, being divine punishment, would never end. Popular culture witnessed long-term relative American decline and it saw the recession, and it linked the two. The result was a maze of political ideas and common myths: we need a work ethic back, we need political vision, we must buy American, we need a fundamental restructuring of the way our economy works...
...AMERICAN AIRLINES LAUNCHED its new streamlined U.S. fare system last week, the traveling public responded with a round of applause and a ring of the reservation phone line. The reforms jettisoned a maddening maze of rates and restrictions and replaced them with just four new fares that provided savings of up to 50% for first-class and nearly 40% for business flyers. Competitors jetted to join the cut-and-simplify frenzy, with United's top executives holding late-night sessions to get their own new fares into ads right on American's heels. "This is good for the traveler...
...Perot phenomenon is too new, too untested and too unprecedented for any safe predictions. What does seem likely is that Perot will get on the ballot in all 50 states. Election laws are indeed a maze, but 1980 independent presidential candidate John Anderson managed to qualify everywhere even though he had far less money than Perot has. Anderson prompted a 1983 federal court decision that now makes it difficult for states to bar ballot access unreasonably. Thus, it is hard to believe that Perot -- with the resources to hire the best election lawyers in the nation -- will fail...
...Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them to see it. And lose them, if you care to, in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, a 400-yd. maze dominated by a tennis court-size Cheshire cat painted in flowers. You can get lost -- really lost -- among the high hedges and the pop-up Carroll characters...
...tackle the holly maze behind the Governor's Palace, buy new quill pens and replenish my supplies of ink and sealing wax at least once a year or else suffer from withdrawal...