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Reviving Motown If white racism, Coleman Young and a delusional dependence on the auto industry's belief in its own virtues put Detroit where it is today, what - if anything - can pull this tragic city out of its death spiral...
Much work has to be done. Hatoyama has yet to make his first major policy speech, addressing his vision of Japan, which, says Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University's Japan Campus, needs to deal with "the demographic death spiral - low fertility, underemployment of female professionals, low immigration. That's the real life-and-death question for the nation...
...Clinton got virtually the identical result the day after he gave a similar speech on his own health-care plan in that same spot 16 years ago. It turned out to be the high-water mark for an initiative that spent the next year in a drawn-out death spiral and that proved to be a failure that helped cost the Democrats control of Congress in the 1994 elections...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the start of the recession in December 2007, the ratio of job seekers to job openings was 1.5 to 1. Now six unemployed workers chase every available job. It's a brutal game of musical chairs in which a great many people lose and spiral downward economically with disastrous consequences, not only for themselves and their families, but also for communities that were once productive and prosperous. (See pictures of life during the Great Depression...
...Aquino murder shocked and angered the country, sparking popular demonstrations, intensifying the disaffection and causing the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. Two of the most important elements of Philippine society, the church and the military, began quickly turning against Marcos. The Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin, a powerful figure in a country nominally 85% Roman Catholic, openly encouraged opposition political figures...