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Despite the excitement, market watchers were divided on how long the party would last. In the past their predictions have gone wide of the mark. A bull market began almost exactly two years ago on Friday, Aug. 13, when the Dow Jones stood at 776.92. The Dow went upward for ten months, until the middle of 1983, and forecasters confidently predicted it would reach 1400 or 1500. Instead, it then began drifting sideways. This year, while many money managers expected the market to pick up steam again, it sank instead. The price of an average share of stock...
After Peres had been tapped by Herzog, he promised to form "a government as wide as possible, a unified government." Still, he could abandon efforts to negotiate with Shamir and seek to scrape together a parliamentary majority of his own. The two major parties remain deeply divided on a host of issues, from Lebanon to settlement policy in the West Bank. But there are pressing troubles that cannot wait until the tangled election results are finally sorted out. The Bank of Israel announced last week that during July the government had been forced to pump an unprecedented $360 million into...
Mexico City has another natural peculiarity that makes it unable to support its millions. At 7,350 ft., it is one of the highest cities in the world, and yet it lies in a 50-mile-wide basin surrounded by mountains rising 3,000 ft. higher, notably the snow-covered volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. ("The two monsters," D.H. Lawrence wrote of them, "watching gigantically and terribly over their lofty, bloody cradle of men ... murmuring like two watchful lions.") The thin air not only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce...
...streams and rivers. Some of the waters, including the Kissimmee, feed into the gigantic water system that supplies drinking water for the 4 million inhabitants of southern Florida. Others snake off to submerge the Everglades and nurture its water-loving fowl and alligators. When the 200-ft.-wide, 30-ft.-deep channel was completed and the Kissimmee's annual overflow was eliminated, two-thirds of its adjacent marshland, or 20,000 acres, shriveled up, taking with it the plants and animals dependent on the wet-and-dry cycle. Bald eagles, which feasted on the marsh fish that flourished during...
Whatever technology or ingenuity could provide, ABC bought. At a cost of more than $150,000, it built a sleek futuristic van, 22 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, packing it with cameras and monitors to record the 26 miles and 385 yds. of the marathon. The van's shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary...