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...result of defense cutbacks. Meanwhile, the median price of a Los Angeles home reached $224,000 in the third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years. It's not a crash scenario, but I don't see prices being pushed much higher." In the topsy- turvy world of the '90s, even the Golden State will endure a changing fortune...
...moment in history has come for the Bunting Institute to increase its contribution to the advancement of the intellectual projects and pursuits of Third World women--Asian, African and Latin American women," Ladd says...
Ladd, a former associate executive director of Oxfam America--an organization that supports self-help projects in developing nations, says she hopes to bring more minorities and women from the Third World to the institute...
...indebtedness and poverty of the Third World threaten the trend of democracy there. The indebtedness of the U.S., both to itself and to foreigners, threatens its prosperity at home and its influence abroad. The consequences of Japan's emergence as an economic superpower could end up dwarfing the current, suddenly fashionable concern over the reunification of Germany. The U.S. may have won the cold war against the Soviet Union, but it has gone a long way toward losing the trade and technology war with Japan. Meanwhile, the environment, while also newly fashionable as a subject of political rhetoric...
...trade to increased Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., there would be a different man in the Kremlin today. Or at least there would be a very different Gorbachev, one who would still be suppressing dissidents, sending refuseniks to Siberia, invading neighboring countries, propping up dictators, financing wars in the Third World and generally behaving the way central-casting Soviet leaders are supposed...