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Oakland's starting lineup had outhomered Los Angeles 132-36 this season, but Belcher and Howell continued the Athletics' Series-long slump...
Gibson, who ended a 1-for-16 slump with his game-winning homer in Game 4, hit a three-run shot in the fifth inning for his second homer in a little over 12 hours...
Jody Reed started Boston's third with a single that ended his 0-for-17 slump. Wade Boggs singled Reed to third, and Dwight Evans walked to load the bases with two outs against Rod Nichols...
Despite the slump in small-investor trading, individual shareholders still control the majority of stock listed in the U.S. But they have sold off more stocks than they have bought during 16 of the past 17 years, while institutions have been net buyers. Sindlinger & Co., a research firm, estimates that only 3.7% of all U.S. stock-owning households have immediate plans to buy more shares, down from 35% near the peak of last year's bull market...
...Texas, though beginning to recover from a severe oil, real estate and banking slump, is still depressed enough in some areas to deny Bush half of the peace-and-prosperity theme he is pushing elsewhere and to open at least some ears to Dukakis' time-for-a-change argument. While the unemployment rate has dropped to 6.8%, it is well above the national average of 5.6%. Texas continues to reel from bank closings -- 93 as of last week -- and failures of savings and loan associations. Says Luan Tatum, Democratic chair in Angelina County: "I watch the TV and hear them...