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...recession so far has been steep and painful. During the October- December quarter, the economy shrank at an estimated 4% annual rate. Last week a barrage of grim statistics underscored the situation. Housing starts fell 13.3% last year, to the lowest level since the 1981-82 recession. Industrial production declined at a rate of 8% during the final quarter of 1990, and the tailspin showed no sign of a letup. Domestic auto sales during the first 10 days of January were more than 31% lower than during the same period a year ago. "Nobody is selling anything. Times couldn...
...those who are obsessed with the steep price we would pay for liberating Kuwait ignore the real objectives that properly and necessarily justify American intervention: protecting the world's oil supply; preventing Iraqi hegemony over the Middle East; and eliminating Saddam Hussein's ability to produce and deploy biological, chemical and nuclear weapons...
...stakes are high. This week a study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reports a steep rise in brain-cancer rates over the past dozen years. If the increased incidence of such cancers could be linked to electromagnetism in the home or workplace, liability suits could clog the courts. Property values near power lines and electric substations are plummeting. If the utilities have to bury or reroute those systems, the cost of doing business could take a sharp jump...
...shadow of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a buck with a velvet rack picks his way across a steep hillside, followed by three does. Hearing a noise, the deer turn toward a meadow filled with oak trees and sunflowers that glisten like gold coins. A band of backpacking Boy Scouts stare wide-eyed at this moment of natural theater...
...ride down has been almost as steep as the climb up. In 1990 alone, share prices in both funds have dropped more than 30% (see graph). Even on a long- term basis, the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund are among the industry's worst performers. Benalder Bayse Jr., who from 1985 to 1989 ran both funds, testified with immunity at Milken's presentencing hearing that a Milken crony, Roy Johnson, helped him land what he described as a "lucrative job" at First Investors. Thereafter, according to Bayse, Johnson funneled junk bonds to him, both for the mutual...