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...entrepreneurship. In many respects the American economy is remarkably solid, with a respectable if not spectacular growth rate of around 3% projected for 1987 and an unemployment rate significantly lower than that in most other industrialized countries. But economic reality in America is complex and contradictory. Yesterday's boom regions, like the Southwest, are suffering while yesterday's depressed areas, like the Northeast, are booming. Thirty- one states, mostly in the heartland of the nation, are in recession. Mothers and fathers know that the industries in which they have worked all their lives will not provide middle-income jobs...
...nation in the next few years will be groping toward a new definition of itself. Now a new generation comes to power. Those marked by the formative experiences of the Depression and by World War II will leave the stage. The generation of the baby boom, which was formed by the Viet Nam era, will begin taking over...
...saloon in Juneau, the sawdust on the floor gets changed biweekly come fog, downpour or the occasional shard of sunlight. Behind the bar, there's a bumper sticker that was temporarily stapled up last spring for laughs. It reads, GOD, PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER BOOM. WE PROMISE NOT TO P THIS ONE AWAY...
...stiff hike up the hill from the Red Dog, nobody in the state capitol building sees anything to chuckle about. When Steve Cowper, the new Governor of the largest state in the union, looks out his third-floor window, his horizon does not stretch far enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion...
...Spider Woman; both were the work of an independent studio, Island Pictures. The major studios left an opening for such films by sticking too long with expensive formulas calling for car chases, special effects and predictable stars. While those features have perennial appeal for teens, the baby-boom generation is developing a taste for movies about relationships and , eccentric characters, films that often take less money but more ingenuity to make...