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Inventories of unsold cars have swollen to 1.8 million vehicles. At current sales levels, that is a 75-day supply, well above what is considered healthy, and Detroit is finally acknowledging the sharp downturn in demand and cutting production plans for the rest of the year. Output at General Motors assembly plants in the third quarter will be the lowest of any July-September period in 19 years, Chrysler's the smallest in a decade. While none of the automakers are scheduling long-term shutdowns, many workers are being idled for the first time since the last recession. Ford, which...
...more and more thrift executives got into trouble in 1987 and 1988, S & L PACs simply stepped up their campaign giving; by the time Washington finally got around to addressing the S & L crisis this year, the cost of a bailout had swollen to an outrageous $158 billion or more over the next eleven years. Over the past three elections, according to the Wall Street Journal, the S & Ls gave $4.5 million to the members of Congress willing to protect them. House Banking Committee member Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who refuses to take PAC money, believes this...
Like student athletes at many other schools, UNLV's players often arrive on campus with severe reading problems, poor study skills and swollen egos. They practice as much as four hours a day, seven days a week, and miss 30 to 40 days of classes because of road games. During their absence, notetakers are hired to attend class for them. All players are required to attend a two-hour study hall after practice, but some are so exhausted they can barely keep their eyes open. UNLV's graduation rate is better than that of many schools, although only...
...perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...
...soldiers. Warned Meir Pa'il, a retired colonel: "If we continue, the real danger is that our soldiers will be turned into beasts." That is already happening, said a lieutenant colonel in charge of % one West Bank military district: "The first time you see someone whose face is swollen after a beating by our soldiers, you are horrified. The second time is not so terrible anymore. The third time, you are indifferent...