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Lower interest rates, and the faster growth they bring, will be a welcome tonic for the U.S. economy. Last week the Labor Department announced that unemployment jumped in February from 6.7% to 7.3%. Most of the increase, however, occurred in three states: California, Texas and Illinois. California's farm economy was disrupted by recent floods, Texas' oil business was decimated by falling petroleum prices, and Illinois lost many manufacturing jobs...
...record sounds like sunshine and turns out to be a tonic rebuke to solid values and positive thinking. "Well, I've seen sex and I think it's okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes...
...maybe not so curious. Spielberg has that tonic effect on a lot of people. Prowling the bustling Amazing Stories set in his blue baseball cap, brown leather bomber jacket, salmon-colored jeans, pink socks and gray running shoes with SPIELBERG stamped on the heels, the Mogul of Magic looks just old enough to be the classmate-coach at a college touch-football scrimmage. He has time for everyone, with a few jokes in between: "TV stands for Tender Vittles. That's what we're givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard...
...nation entertains at home is also changing. The time when a host or hostess stocked up on whiskey for the winter, gin and tonic in summer, some bottles of white wine and a six-pack of beer year-round is gone. "I've had three cocktail parties recently," says Doris Yaffe, fashion and publicity < director for Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston. "I can't tell you how much liquor I was left with." The nation's caterers have seen hardliquor sales drop from more than half to less than one-quarter of their business. New York City Caterer Donald Bruce...
...economist acknowledges that his plan is unlikely to be used in its pure form, but says that even a modified version would be a strong tonic for the American economy. Companies, for example, could guarantee a base wage and then offer variable bonuses that would be a share of profits or revenues. More than 350,000 U.S. companies already offer limited profit sharing, though employees often do not receive the money until they leave the company. Some firms, including General Motors and Ford, have started to give out annual profit- sharing checks. GM last year gave a typical employee...