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...with a twelve-point rise in the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average, to 788. The runaway Dow took only six months to close above the 1100 mark for the first time ever and just two more to break 1200. Though the market slowed to a more dawdling pace for more than a year, it came roaring back again last spring. The Dow zipped past 1300 in May, and last week it made history again by crashing through the 1400 barrier. It ended the week...
...truth is that Natty Gann is a very good movie by anyone's standards. Set in the 1930s, the film has an unhurried pace, and the amplitude with which it envisions the land, its alternation of the idyllic and the menacing, evokes one of that era's classic forms, the road movie. And then, in effect, reimagines it. Here the road movie's traditional protagonist, the wayfarer whose only resources are wit and courage, is transformed into a young girl. Enchantingly played by Meredith Salenger, 14, Natty is obviously more imperiled by the hobo life than a man would...
Despite that rapid and spontaneous outpouring, rescue work at Armero proceeded at a slow and frustrating pace. The torrential mudslides washed away roads and bridges, limiting efforts to deliver both rescuers and relief supplies. Foul weather and the continuing down pour of volcanic ash from the smoking mountain kept Colombian helicopters away from Armero until Thursday afternoon. Only on Friday could the U.S. fly in any of the big CH-47 Chinook helicopters, capable of evacuating dozens of people at a time. In the interim, only nine small helicopters, able to carry just a handful of victims each, had flown...
Much of the disenchantment stems from bitterness at the pace of the recovery program. Inevitably, there have been charges that relief money has been misappropriated. The government, however, claims that the relief effort so far has been a success. Presidential Spokesman Manuel Alonso predicts that the needs of all those left homeless by the quake will be met "by March at the latest...
...Institute for International Economic Studies in Tokyo, predicted that Nakasone's modest plan would have little impact. He expects the Japanese growth rate to slip from 4.5% this year to 4% or even 3.5% in 1986, primarily because the country's exports will increase at a slower pace. The government is reluctant to adopt more potent stimulative measures, like large tax cuts, because it wants to keep the Japanese inflation rate, only about 2.5% this year, firmly under control...