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...behold: the Rust Bowl is resurgent. Thanks largely to a weakened dollar, which makes imports more expensive and American goods cheaper overseas, the output of U.S. factories rose 4.2% last year, twice the 1986 increase. Marching proudly under the MADE IN THE U.S.A. banner, companies are boosting their exports and winning back domestic sales lost to imports. Says Peter Jordan, an economist at Data Resources, a consulting firm: "American manufacturing is undergoing a major renaissance." In fact, business is so strong that some firms may soon face a shortage of capacity to handle the soaring demand...
...newest, the work of Writer-Artist Byrne, 37, who redesigned him for DC Comics in 1986. Circulation had slumped below 100,000 copies a month (compared, for example, with nearly 500,000 for Uncanny X-Men), and DC Comics President Jenette Kahn decided that "there was a coat of rust on the man of steel." She also knew that the audience for comics was changing. The corner candy store where kids used to buy comics has largely disappeared, and the kids have grown older. Today's buyers average about 20 and are apt to be science students or even engineers...
...Hart, the Chinese water torture ends today. Free at last. Now, to find something to get the rust off this zipper...
...Senator proposed the discharge because he was concerned the bill would not pass committee before the 1987 legislative deadline because of "frivolous" attempts to stall it, Rust said, referring to more than 50 proposed amendments and the 12 approved amendments to the bill...
...Rust said Bolling also proposed the measure because State Sen. Arthur J. Lewis (D-Boston), chairman of the Third Reading Committee, is the leading Senate opponent of the bill, and has publicly said he will keep the bill in his committee for the entire 45-day period to prevent its passage...