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Part of the problem, of course, is that production growth has been far more sluggish than usual for the first 31 months of recovery; and this has been reflected in an equally slow reduction in unemployment -- down from 7.8% in June 1992 to 6.8% last month, but still far higher than normal for this stage of an expansion. But the unemployment rate is a grossly inadequate measure of hardship. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich estimates that in addition to the 8.8 million people officially counted as jobless, 1.2 million are so discouraged that they have quit looking for work...
Life here in depopulated Cambridge promises to be mostly unaffected by The Game, though some local merchants predicted a sluggish business weekend...
...relatively small. The Administration, for example, projects a net gain of 200,000 American jobs in the next two years. That sounds impressive, but it is not much more than the 150,000 new jobs the U.S. domestic economy is creating every month, even at the present sluggish rate of employment growth. On the other side, Perot keeps talking about a "giant sucking sound" of factories, money and jobs being vacuumed into Mexico from the U.S. He is almost the only one who can hear it. Some treaty opponents have been kicking around a figure of 500,000 jobs that...
...Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will grudgingly approve tax increases they can be persuaded are needed for specific purposes -- but woe to the officeholder who raises taxes...
...match against Dartmouth, the Crimson started off a bit sluggish, playing...