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...smarter Democratic appeal would tackle the efficiency of Reaganomics head-on. With the GNP drooping, industrial plant closings way up. Middle America in shambles and nary a sign of the much-heralded supply side investment boom, it is difficult if not impossible to defend the Republican economic initiatives as leading to overall economic health. A more centrist appeal--challenging Reaganomics on what proponents consider its own merits--would doubtless capture many of those voters more distressed by economic listlessness than by inequity...
Such woes are the bust side of the boom that fueled the energy industry at the end of the 1970s. Oilmen, expecting the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to push prices to $50 or even $75 per bbl., spent billions to find and develop wells and then were startled when consumption dropped and prices fell. OPEC, which had been trying to resist the slide, acknowledged the new era last month by cutting its official price 15%, from $34 to $29 per bbl. Observes T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a 32-year veteran of the industry...
...have similar tales to tell. Developers flocked to build skyscrapers in Denver as the U.S. turned to the resource-rich Rocky Mountain region for relief from OPEC price gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada...
...raped. Sex and violence have an eerily close kinship as it is. Rape itself may be a form of murder, the destruction of someone's will and spirit. No wonder those same soldiers in Viet Nam spoke of dragging girls into the woods "for a little boom-boom." To "bang" a woman remains part of the idiom. The sound is a gun, the body a weapon. In a "gang bang," murder becomes a massacre...
...this got to be too much, even for San Francisco. Last month Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed a measure that was instantly dubbed "the Sister Boom Boom Law." It requires candidates for San Francisco city offices to use their legal names. Afterward, the mayor, whose nickname locally is DiFi, observed, "I don't think you ever have to worry about politics becoming too stuffy in San Francisco...