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Most Israelis rejected his ideas as unethical, immoral and racist. Kahane ultimately appealed to only a small segment of the Israeli population and the world Jewish community. At the height of his popularity, Kach garnered only about 5 percent of the vote in Israeli parliamentary elections. In 1988, his party lost much of its support when it was barred from elections under the terms of an Israeli law against racist and undemocratic parties...
...series, with its earnest warnings against sexually transmitted infection, may have helped some troubled members in its audience. But most viewers, including the 37- and 29-percenters, probably appreciated the programs more for their inadvertent entertainment value. One segment mostly followed a private detective stalking an erring wife. There was not much to see because most of the images had been digitized to protect the sinful. But as a fantasy, it wasn't bad for a sleepless night or a stalled train ride. Just what kind of challenge would your unfaithful self provide for a gumshoe? And what about your...
REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS, however, believethat this year, Bulger is vulnerable. And DeJongsays he can win. He argues that Bulger onlyrepresents a small segment of the district, thosetied to him in South Boston, and that members ofother neighborhoods in the district can rallytogether and defeat the incumbent...
...Davis Jr., the dean of auto critics, has judged "a damned nice little car." That is no small feat. No other American company sells or builds any kind of little car without substantial help from foreign partners. Honda, Toyota, Nissan and other Japanese companies have driven away with that segment of the car business, boosting Japan's overall share of the U.S. auto market from 19.6% in 1980 to 27.7% last year, or 2.7 million vehicles. When Chrysler dropped its U.S.-made Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models this year, the company began relying strictly on Japanese-built vehicles...
...that the tourist business has not yet fully recovered. "The fear factor is gone," proclaims Tapan Munroe, chief economist for Pacific Gas & Electric. Not everyone agrees. In the past year more than 7,000 aftershocks, ranging up to 5.4 on the Richter scale, have been recorded on the northern segment of the San Andreas fault, where the quake struck. Last April, on the 84th anniversary of the Great Quake of 1906, which killed an estimated 2,500 people, a series of nine temblors occurred near the the town of Watsonville, which was severely damaged last October...