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...clear rebuff to Clinton, the former Massachusetts Senator received 20% of the vote.) Still, there are contrary signs that suggest that 1992 will be far from a normal political campaign. A Harris poll at the end of last year found that voter alienation was at a 25- year peak. Turnout in primaries is even lower than usual, and much of the stay-at-home electorate may be too bitter to bother to vote in November. The recession is seen as a talisman of America's long-term economic decline, rather than just as a cyclical downturn. The House-bank scandal...
...pushing up interest rates. The Ministry of Finance published regulations to discourage real estate speculation. The bubble began to deflate. And the Tokyo Stock Exchange went into a swoon which is yet to end. Currently flirting with the 20,000 level, the Nikkei average is down 47% from its peak. Real estates prices fell as much as 30% in Tokyo and 40% in Osaka...
...meet the need for condoms, population bureaucrats are pressing the nation's latex industry to stretch output quickly by 100 million, to a peak of 1.5 billion a year. Check off one more victory for the forces of supply and demand over central planning...
Adams House Master Robert Kiely ended interhouse for lunch earlier this month citing overcrowding. According to Berry Adams, conveniently located near the Yard, sometimes served lunch to more than 600 students during peak hours...
Frank Dalaklis, unit manager for the Leverett dining hall, said that there has been somewhat of an added strain but that the dining hall has continued to function relatively evenly during peak hours...