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Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a news conference that the decision to storm the steel mill was inevitable. "The majority wanted to work...We must protect our meager economic potential," he said...
...subway rattled north toward Harlem, Arthur's demons returned. Even above the racket of the wheels, he could hear them sniggering at his fantasies of stardom, playing good cop-bad cop with his head. One voice demanded to be told where he found the gumption to strut his meager stuff before the same footlights that had illuminated the talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight and Michael Jackson. A second and more kindly presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance to walk across the platform and jump the first train home...
Paychecks have fallen so far behind spiraling rents that half the 13 million American families living in poverty are devoting a crushing 50% or more of their meager incomes to shelter. Higher up the social scale, the housing market is thwarting the dream of home ownership for additional millions of mostly young people. They remain in apartments because they cannot afford the high cash down payments and interest rates needed to buy a house. In fact, the U.S. has reversed a four-decade trend toward greater home ownership. The percentage of all households that own their homes, after climbing...
...excess capacity in the auto industry. We said to ourselves, 'We're not going to face this again.' " That attitude is to be expected, says Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics: "A reluctance to invest in new capacity is a natural reaction to years of meager profits...
...Republican side, where a meager 80 GOP conservatives voted, Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) won 40 votes at the two polling places, George Bush received 32 and Pat Robertson won only a single vote...