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...growth in America's battered industrial sector since July 2000. Or 58 - Tuesday's ISM index for the services sector, highest since November 2000. Or 1.4 percent - revised GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2001. Or 0.4 percent - which is how much consumer spending and personal income both rose in January, the biggest rise in eight months...
Most controversial of all may be Schill's use of crime statistics to portray Hamburg as a hotbed of criminality. The number of crimes reported in 2001 rose by 12.1% compared with 2000, but a single case of stock fraud involving 26,500 victims scattered throughout Germany accounted for most of the increase. In fact, breaking-and-entering cases declined by 19.3% last year and muggings by 27.2%, according to police statistics. Still, some 60% of voters surveyed in one poll found street crime the biggest issue in the election. "The old government didn't address problems like drug crime...
...statistics are unsettling. In Am-sterdam last year, mobile-phone theft rose by 80%; in the U.K., it jumped almost 200% from 1995-2000. The fact that lots more people now use mobile phones helps account for some of the increase. But police in many countries believe reported thefts represent only the tip of an increasingly dangerous iceberg...
...Over the past four years we have increased our scholarship program by 40% in a time when tuition and fees rose on average 2.5% annually...
...Today, however, costs are soaring again, fueled by drug and hospital prices. Insurance premiums rose 11% last year, and are likely to increase an additional 15% this year. Because of the recession, employers are trimming or eliminating coverage even as an estimated 2 million Americans have lost their health plans along with their jobs. State governments, facing a collective deficit of $40 billion, can no longer afford the extra Medicaid benefits they began paying for a few years ago. "You can't just manage your way out of it anymore," says Engler. "The numbers are getting...