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This rhetoric, while tame by the standards of the 1988 campaign, comes at an odd moment: two new reports last week showed the budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks...
As they do across the nation, economic class divisions further complicate racial rifts, with wealth filling the gaps and poverty widening them. The average black family in Greensboro makes about two-thirds of what a typical white family brings in, and, while the city's jobless rate is only 3.4...
Jokes aside, the rift between Washington and Jerusalem appeared to be widening alarmingly. Senior Administration officials insisted Baker's crack was no impulsive outburst but a calculated attempt "to lay down a marker before the new Israeli government locked itself into a position that made further progress ((toward peace talks...
Kocos said many local store owners are confused and fearful about the improvements they will have to make, which require businesses to be made accessible to the disabled by the end of next year. Business groups have estimated that building a concrete ramp can cost between $1,000 and $10...
Throughout the 1980s, political leaders told their constituents that times would be lean for a few years under the belt-tightening policies and would then turn rosy. But their deadlines are long past, and their promises are unfulfilled. According to a World Bank report last year, the gap in per...