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...Channel Five told me what the networks had sworn not to divulge until 11:00 p.m.--that George Bush will be the forty-first President. When ABC projected that he had captured Missouri's ten electoral votes, Bush crossed the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes...
...years, breaking the world record nine times and scoring ten of the 16 best jumps in the history of the sport. His real Olympic goal was not to beat the competition -- which seemed a foregone conclusion -- but to become the first man ever to soar over 20 ft., a threshold he had been flirting with all year...
Joblessness is at its lowest level since 1974. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in June, down from 5.6% the previous month. Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, thinks the jobless level is approaching the threshold at which it begins to spur wage and price increases. Says he: "I like an unemployment rate of 5.3%, but if it goes below 5%, then I would be concerned." Yet other economists think the work force can readily accommodate the scattered shortages. Says Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...capacity for "winning" a nonnuclear war. Such talk understandably unnerves European allies, who know the horrors of wars being waged on their territory. But aside from the unartful language, Dukakis' goal makes sense: enhancing NATO's strength could deter a conventional war or, if that failed, raise the threshold at which nuclear weapons might be used...
...award, even though her husband won the $400,000, which the defense lawyers accuse the jury of handing out as an inappropriate gesture of sympathy. Still, anti-tobacco lawyers think victims and their estates will have an easier time winning awards in other states where the proof-of-liability threshold is far lower. Mississippi's, for example, is just...