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...UPSHOT IS THAT WHILE JAILS and prisons still incapacitate, incarcerate and punish, they no longer -- if they ever did -- deter crime. Indeed, in many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent. "Their father's been in prison, their brother's been in prison," says Lieut. Robert Losack, 30, who has served as a Texas prison guard for nine years. "It's socially acceptable; it's part of growing up." Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. They also pose a greater threat. "Prison culture becomes...
...upshot: 1993 seems headed for a gangbusters finish. Many revised forecasts for fourth-quarter growth cluster around 4%, up from 2.8% in the third quarter and only 1.9% in the spring. That pace would be just too fast to keep up, so output is likely to drop back in early 1994 -- but hardly as much as it did early this year. The consensus forecast is 3% in 1994, but a few brave souls are beginning to mutter 3.5%. Which would be no boom, but maybe something better: a pace that could be sustained for a long time, keeping incomes...
...beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will grudgingly approve tax increases they can be persuaded are needed for specific purposes -- but woe to the officeholder who raises taxes and has nothing to show...
...upshot of the law's enactment as it relates to Harvard and Radcliffe is that not much will--some would say should--change on campus. Harvard University is neither the main target nor the expected enforcer of the law. Too often, we forget that most of us are visitors in a state that has other concerns besides the pleasantness of our stay...
...conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was that Christian Coalition would get credit, and legitimacy, for securing the critical margin of support. In exchange, Bush's handlers accepted many of Reed's choices for delegates to the convention and allowed the religious right to pack the platform committee. The upshot: Bush seemed a prisoner of his party's extreme right, and the conservatives took a mostly bum rap for Bush's defeat...