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...mayor held meetings to try to find a compromise that would stave off default. As failure seemed imminent, Forbes offered a soothing prediction: "Come Saturday morning, the sun is going to shine, or it is going to snow." But as the city's credit rating plummets and outright bankruptcy looms, drastic cutbacks in all city services seem inevitable. Or, as Kucinich so aptly put it when a midnight deadline passed: "There will be six months of chaos for this one night of shame...
South Africa said it will "cooperate" with the U.N. supervised elections but insisted on holding its own vote as well. It has not agreed outright to the U.N. plan...
...North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with its attempt...
...growth in G.N.P. would be about 3% or more. "It may be a shade above that for a quarter or two," said he, "or a shade below." Added William Cox, deputy chief economist at the Commerce Department: "I still feel we're not likely to have an outright recession next year. There are several elements of strength in the picture." He cited increased business investment and the improving balance of trade. "There's a reasonably good chance that business investment will not be knocked into a cocked hat. The question is how well business can look over...
Perhaps the most basic barrier to women's political success is outright sexism?a feeling, among women as well as men, that a woman's place is in the home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions...