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Dukakis hit his emotional peak at a rally in Quincy, Ill., where he brought along brochures mailed to voters by the state Republican Central Committee. One asserted that "all the murderers and rapists and drug pushers and child molesters in Massachusetts vote for Michael Dukakis." Angrily waving one of the pamphlets over his head, Dukakis growled, "Friends, this is garbage. This is political garbage. This isn't worthy of a political campaign." All during the week he spoke with feeling about two crime victims he knew well: his father, a doctor, who was once bound, gagged and beaten...
Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30% to 40% of the homeless are mentally impaired. The release program was intended to lead to more small facilities, where the poor could receive affordable outpatient care. Yet 70% of the $6 billion spent each year on state-run mental health programs still goes to institutions. A greater proportion must...
Falling temperatures usually boost the spirits of oil producers. As energy users in the Northern Hemisphere stoke their furnaces and fill up their oil tanks, demand for fuel begins climbing toward its annual peak. For members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, who supply 40% of the world's crude, the season should be one of relative harmony. But not this year. The group is in the throes of an oil-pumping free-for-all that has sent prices tumbling to levels not seen in more than two years...
...gate is divided into two hinged door sections that swing open from the middle. The vertical bars extend beyond the top of the gate in a series of miniature spires that rise from the outside and peak in the center...
...hottest stock guru in 1986 and '87 because of the bullish predictions in his newsletter The Elliott Wave Theorist ($233 a year). He based his forecasts on a mix of esoteric formulas and offbeat indicators like hemlines: the return of the miniskirt, he said, was a sign of a peak in the market. Prechter issued a warning on Oct. 5, advising his subscribers to sell their stocks. But he did not predict the downturn's severity, which disappointed some followers. "New business has virtually disappeared," Prechter concedes, but he is philosophical: "Going through the valley is something I've done...