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...Urban League's statistical portrait was one of intractable joblessness and poverty, even in the face of a robust national recovery. In December, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.2%, the lowest in more than two years. But for blacks, whose jobless rate traditionally is roughly double that for whites, the unemployment rate was a dispiriting...
While Mondale has risen in the polls, so has the man he seeks to unseat, Ronald Reagan. The President is riding a tide of good feeling generated by the robust economic recovery. About 60% of those responding to the poll "feel that things are going well these days," while about one-third were as sanguine a year ago. In fact, the country's mood is better than at any other time in the past six years. Nonetheless, the number of those who say that they feel "a lot of confidence in the future" (35%) has remained virtually unchanged...
...blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
That Christmas spirit of spending was in the air as shoppers embarked on a robust post-Thanksgiving Day parade into stores. No longer held back by recession worries, consumers were buying presents that ranged from stocking stuffers to such big-ticket items as television sets and refrigerators. This season's merry merchants expect holiday revenues to climb by a healthy 10%, after four years of slack sales. Shopkeepers feel confident because customers have got the spending itch so early this year. When Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus opened its first Chicago outlet on Nov. 5, some 40,000 shoppers crowded...
...Greek Cypriots, for their part, run a robust enough economy. But they are frustrated politically and demand not only the withdrawal of the 20,000 Turkish "occupation" troops but also the return of Greek Cypriots to areas they were forced to abandon after 1974. They agree in principle to a federated state but are vague about the kind of equality Denktash demands for his outnumbered minority. Turkish Cypriot leaders insisted last week that the federation option remains open despite the proclamation of the republic; indeed, they explained, the creation of a Turkish Cypriot state would provide the weight necessary...