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...remarkable that the Administration has been put on the defensive about an economic issue: by most measures the economy is in crackerjack shape. Even as Mondale was exploiting the deficit issue, Wall Street was trading and taking profits with pent-up gusto: 754.5 million shares were sold last week, a record. Both the Administration and the Congressional Budget Office issued somewhat cheerier economic estimates for 1984 and beyond. But the federal budget shortfalls continue to mar the Reagan record: the nonpartisan CBO predicted that without further budget cuts or tax increases, the deficits will continue to grow, almost doubling...
...first major eruption of those long-simmering tensions came on a hot summer's day in 1959 in the squalid Wadi Salib area of Haifa, where 15,000 people, mostly Moroccans, were crammed into tenements. After a policeman wounded a Moroccan, crowds of Sephardim unleashed their pent-up anger. They pelted policemen with stones, wrecked some 25 local shops, burned two buildings and, in the process, sent a shudder through the nation...
...such brave efforts around the nation, millions of Filipinos were encouraged last week to speak their minds and vote their consciences for the first time in 15 years. Protected by 150,000 volunteer poll watchers belonging to the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) and prompted by long-pent-up frustration with the autocratic government of President Ferdinand Marcos, voters delivered a stunning message: they were ready for change and prepared to fight for it. Before the election, the President had publicly prophesied a routine landslide victory for his Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.), or New Society Movement. Even...
...executives and salespeople who have been unable to get mobile phones because of the limited capacity of the old systems. Says Katie Harriss, an executive with Ameritech in Chicago, the first company to offer cellular service: "All the sales we've had so far are from the pent-up demand that already existed." Ameritech has been operating its network only since October and has 6,500 customers. It expects to have twice as many by December...
Hart himself ventured a pretty good explanation last week. "What I think I may have tapped," he said, "is a reservoir much vaster than anyone ever contemplated, [a reservoir of] that pent-up, latent need to reidentify with national purpose." Hart, a canny political tactician, has taken full advantage of the gusher. He knew the media, eager for a loner-strikes-it-rich drama, would devote columns of type and hours of television air time to him. "It's like riding the wave," says Kathy Bushkin, his press secretary. "There's not much we can do to direct...