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PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market...
With three years of national campaigning under his belt, Gephardt is a practiced and polished performer, doggedly crisscrossing the country, prescribing tougher trade policies and heavier doses of education to bolster "human capacity" as cures for an ailing America. His stump speech is a stark sweet-and-sour concoction that warns audiences of inevitable economic decline because of surging foreign competition, yet promises a revitalized America. "I worry about an America where dreams don't come true," he tells Democrats in his earnest style. "Our country has sunk to a low, but we can make it great again...
Unlike the five other declared candidates, Dukakis argues that the best way to reduce the deficit would be to institute a tougher tax collection plan. The Bay State governor is proposing a multi-faceted approach which includes temporary amnesty for taxpayers and harsher penalties for tax delinquents...
Greenspan's lot may be even tougher than Volcker's was. The new chairman must fend off a recession by keeping interest rates low, but he will come under excruciating pressure to raise them again if the dollar needs rescuing. Any little upward nudge in interest rates, however, is likely to send the stock market into the tank again. When the Fed's open market committee met last week for the first time since the crash, some economists hoped the group might rescind September's discount-rate increase. But no such announcement came. One reason may be that the committee...
...spikers and UConn traded several side-outs and kills, in reaching a 10-10 deadlock. UConn, however, proved just a little tougher at home, capturing...