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Incidents involving the breaking and entering of property also met the steady upward trend dating back to 1984, Tempesta said, as 210 of these events occurred in 1990, nine more than 1989's tally. The number has increased each year since the police department began keeping accurate records in 1984, he said. That year saw 54 break-and-enters...
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...nuclear winter, affecting weather patterns all around the world with devastating effects on agriculture. Nuclear blasts and volcanoes can send smoke exploding 16 km or more into the upper atmosphere, enabling it to travel long distances around the globe; but the worst oil-field inferno would probably lack the upward thrust to send smoke even one-tenth as high into the air before it started to cool and descend...
...considered plans to shut down temporarily, as they did at the start of World War I and the end of World War II. Instead, they enacted emergency rules to limit wide market gyrations. Rather than prevent a crash, the so-called circuit breakers acted mainly to brake the wild upward surges...
...budget deficit, the potential of armed conflict in the Middle East and the general economic recession have caused an uncertainty that has permeated the market," Scheetz said. "Employers must play it safe now to make profits, hiring few college graduates until the economy is back on a steady upward trend...