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Such new scenarios have arisen largely because real events so often confounded the old ones. Supply-siders, for instance, boasted that their policies would boost the U.S. savings rate and make Americans more productive. But, like the supply-side forecasts of smaller deficits, both promises failed to come true. The personal savings rate fell from 7.1% in 1980 to about 4% last year. At the same time, the growth of business productivity, or output per hour, averaged a meager 1.4% from 1980 to 1987, half the rate of the 1960s. Reason: the savings decline slowed investments in productive new equipment...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...
Imitation, it has often been said, is the sincerest form of Hollywood. So movie moguls are now hot to remake Women on the Verge, with perhaps Jane Fonda, Sally Field or Goldie Hawn playing the main role -- taken in the original by Almodovar's house superstar Carmen Maura -- of a TV actress whose lover has just moved out. This week Almodovar goes to Los Angeles in hopes of picking up a Golden Globe statuette. Women on the Verge has already won the Felix, Europe's highest movie prize. And on Academy Award night, Felix may find an odd-couple mate...
...question of Brown's relationship with Jackson comes up. At a small meeting in a Richmond hotel, a woman squirms on the couch, apologizes, then blurts it out with a nervous smile. At a Chicago forum, a man reads the question from a page prepared in advance. They often call it simply "the Jesse question," the perception that Brown is Jackson's candidate or is obligated...
Runner-up: "In Harvard locker room parlance, `defense' usually refers to U.S. capabilities vis-a-vis NATO, `formations' often are those of molecules and `Big Red' is the people's Republic of China. But we try to keep familiar with all the definitions to keep the coaches happy." -- Harvard defensive tackle Jim Bell discussing the football team's plays...