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...reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration and popularity over the past ten years. Polls show that the percentage of respondents who now consider themselves Republicans, 45%, exactly matches the percentage of those who identify themselves as Democrats. Moreover, eight years of Republican defense spending have showered benefits on California's biggest business, aerospace. Bush is courting the industry, while Dukakis talks of holding down defense...
...hellish crush that lasts virtually from sunup till sundown. For U.S. businesses, the meter is running. Companies are losing money as employees fritter away their hours in a transportation standstill. Messengers fail to deliver important documents on time. Sales representatives miss their plane connections and are unable to show up for the big pitch. Even expensive private jets get caught in holding patterns, leaving subordinates in limbo while their bosses circle overhead...
Commuters who drive to work often show up too tired or too irritated to function effectively. Chronic exposure to traffic congestion, according to a study by Psychologist Raymond Novaco at the University of California at Irvine, tends to give drivers "an increase in baseline blood pressure, lowering of frustration tolerance, increase in negative mood and aggressive driving habits." The outbreak of freeway violence in California last year, when more than 100 freeway shootings and rock-throwing incidents took place, was not an aberration. On one Sunday last month, five separate highway shootings occurred in Oregon and Colorado...
...most important show staged by Wright since he became artistic director, and the newest addition to the Guthrie's repertory, is a four-hour, 41-actor production of Hamlet. In it, Wright depicts a crumbling monarchy in which no one is competent to rule, so that Fortinbras' climactic coup d'etat is no tragedy but a blessed relief. Wright invigoratingly moves the action from space to starkly different space within the castle, mostly by use of lighting and a movable back wall that is by turns opaque, reflective or transparent. The first act begins with an elaborate dinner party glimpsed...
DESCRIPTION: Charts show circumstances under which voters favor higher taxes; characteristics and competence of George Bush and Michael Dukakis; attitudes toward Dan Quayle; desire for change from Reagan Administration policies, August, 1987-August, 1988; familiarity with candidates; negative voting results; black and white: two photographs: White House, Dan Quayle, both used as background for charts; color reproduction: cartoon of man sitting in chair, back view, and deciding how to vote...