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...late '80s and early '90s, we're seeing a whole new wave of Christians come in, through two main venues. One is the Rescue movement. It brought in thousands and thousands of people who were not involved in the religious right or the Moral Majority. The other was the Rev. Pat Robertson's presidential campaign. Robertson brought out of the pew and into the process tens of thousands of new people, many of whom are still involved. Their full impact will not be felt until the 1996 election, the 2000 election...
...Hill suffered the alleged harassment, why did she accept a job with Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and then maintain contact with him throughout the '80s? After leaving the EEOC for private life, why did she continue to call her harasser-at least 10 times-and at one point, congratulate him on his marriage...
...fallout from the '80s has given consumers, who account for two-thirds of all spending, an abiding fear of being laid off as companies retrench for lean times. Since the recession began in July 1990, more than 1.6 million jobs have been lost. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate in September slipped a notch, to 6.7% from 6.8% the previous month. While President Bush hailed the movement as "one more sign that the economy is strengthening," many economists and investors saw little to cheer. Among other grim signs, the labor statistics showed that the number...
That will be the painful consequence of the heedless and high-flying '80s. "We live in the box we've got ourselves in," says Lyle Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and a former Fed governor. "We are paying the price for what we did in the past with this enormous federal deficit. The price goes beyond the poor functioning of the economy now. Here we are, this great, wealthy, affluent nation, and we cannot afford to rebuild our highways or bridges. We cannot afford to have a really serious war on drugs. We cannot afford...
Beset by the '80s debt binge, the U.S. economy can't get rolling...