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Any decline in the gargantuan U.S. trade deficit is welcome news. Last week the Government gave cause for restrained cheers in reporting that the trade deficit narrowed slightly in September, falling to $12.56 billion, down $760 million from the previous month. The drop may have resulted from the weakened dollar...
According to several recent polls, Hampers' negative tactics helped her move up from "barely a blip on the screen," to a serious opponent who almost tied Crane in one poll. However, her popularity appears to have peaked already, as voters have begun to find her aggressive advertising offensive.
Two months ago, 15 scientists flew into McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to investigate a mystery: What causes a thinning in atmospheric ozone above the frigid continent, a phenomenon that has peaked each October since it was first observed in 1983? It was hardly an academic question; the ozone layer is a...
Oligopoly of sorts may already exist. If the latest buyouts take place as planned, eight airlines will control more than 87% of the U.S. passenger market (see chart). The rush of new entries into the passenger business that began with airline deregulation in 1978 has long since peaked: from a...
But Reagan may not be as dumb as he lets on. He knows that drug abuse peaked in the early 1970s and has been leveling off ever since. Yet, at the same time, he also knows that anti-drug hysteria is the perfect way to make Americans ignore the rest...