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...Northeast: Down at the Heels. From Boston's high-tech wizardry to Wall Street's takeover deals, the Northeast was on a roll during most of the Roaring '80s. But Wall Street launched a series of layoffs after the 1987 crash and the Massachusetts minicomputer industry went into a spin. The double whammy left the region with a glut of unsold houses and banks with billion- dollar portfolios of bad loans. The Massachusetts economy, which grew more than 7% in 1984, shrank about 1% last year...
Experts almost unanimously blame drugs for the homicide surge. "What's different now than in the late '70s and early '80s?," asks New York Assistant Police Chief Raymond Kelly. "Crack...
...metaphor through which Moore explores several serious social, political and economic issues is his hometown, Flint, Mich., a boom-and-bust factory community that hit bottom again in the mid-'80s, when its principal employer, General Motors, began a series of layoffs that, according to Moore, eventually cost the city some 35,000 jobs. This created a ripple effect afflicting, it would seem, almost every other business, almost every citizen...
...usual, Princeton's strength is thedefensive, patient, cerebral game plan of Carril,who has guided his teams to four Ivy titles in the'80s...
Also having won four titles in the '80s,Penn appears headed in the oppositedirection from the Tigers. Two tough graduationshave weakened the Quaker program tremendously,although some still consider them among theleague's best. The Quakers have played Temple andLaSalle tough early in the season, but their 2-6record illustrates the same inconsistencies thatare plaguing Harvard and Dartmouth...