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...Detroit rising oil prices could worsen the skid that the U.S. auto industry has suffered since the start of the year. The price increases threaten sales of profitable but fuel-thirsty vans, pickup trucks and full- size cars, including the Chevrolet Caprice and the Lincoln Town Car. That would mean further woes for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which temporarily shuttered 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants and fired or laid off 38,000 workers during the first half of the year...
...blowing hard and it was raining the night that Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury arrived at Cedar Point park in Sandusky, Ohio, for a test spin in the Magnum XL-200, the world's highest (205 ft.) and fastest (72 m.p.h.) roller coaster. Since the weather was expected to worsen, park officials insisted that they crank up Magnum for a ride right away. "Suddenly the gigantic structure was ablaze with lights," recalls Woodbury. "There was no way to argue, and so, as the wind whipped off Lake Erie, I was harnessed into the front seat of a soaking, nearly empty...
Inflation's new strength and the economy's limpness leave the Federal Reserve with almost no room to make adjustments. Easier credit would worsen inflation, while tighter money could bring on a recession. As a result, many economists have called on Congress to help cool inflation by cutting the budget deficit. That may be an impossible dream, but the specter of stagflation may give Congress one more good reason to do the responsible thing...
...halt speculation, Modrow announced strict customs controls on the borders with the West. But East Germany's monetary crisis is likely to worsen, thereby increasing dependence on the deutsche mark -- and West Germany. Bonn, in the meantime, is withholding its promised assistance until it is convinced that East Berlin will introduce concrete and irrevocable reforms...
...House's budget-cutting efforts have disappointed some lawmakers. House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield) said new taxes would simply worsen the state's already jittery economy...