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...state of affairs. If passed, the referendum would roll back all state taxes and fees to their 1988 levels, thereby cutting forcing legislators to cuts more than $1 billion from the state budget. The goal is an admirable one; Massachusetts clearly needs to take concrete steps toward balancing its swollen budget deficit...
Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...
...breast-feed so often, while her callow husband is more excited about his automatic tennis server. The same sort of problem seems imminent for the expectant parents of Married People, an ABC sitcom about couples in a New York City apartment house. She's a lawyer disgusted by her swollen ankles; he's a writer who seems happiest when he's listening to old records on his stereo, to nostalgic '60s music. The yuppie backlash comes into sharpest focus in CBS's sitcom Lenny. The head of this TV family is a blue-collar worker (played by stand-up comic...
...continuing increase in unemployment, which rose last month to 5.5%, the highest since August 1988. Corporate profits have declined 12% in the first half, and are likely to sink further, in part because higher interest rates are making it more difficult for many corporations to pay off their swollen debts. Consumers also are too heavily in debt to increase their spending much...
Worst of all, there seems to be little that government can do to head off such trouble. The conventional remedy for recession is deficit spending -- but the budget deficit is so swollen there is little room to pump it up further. The Federal Reserve Board is in an especially impossible position. To ward off or soften recession, the Fed would normally lower interest rates; to combat inflation, it would raise them. To fight both together, it should do -- what? The conventional wisdom is stumped for an answer. The time to move was much earlier: wise policy could have reduced...