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...last three elections is to say Tsongas is an "economic Paul Revere." "Today our economic enemies are our political friends. The war they wage is in the marketplace, not on the battlefield," Tsongas writes. "Overall productivity grew at over 3 percent a year from 1960 to 1973 but has risen by only 1 percent a year since then...
Denizen of sports bars and bleacher seats, failed Little Leaguer and aspiring poet, the sportsman-philosopher has risen from the empty locker room of our collective consciousness to create such classic odysseys as The Natural, Shoeless Joe and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy...
...particular were appearing increasingly nettlesome for the White House. Nearly half those questioned on March 7 said they thought the economy was in "fairly good" shape. By last week that number was down to 36%. At the same time, those who thought it was in "poor" condition had risen from...
...stock grants they hand out to top executives should provide strong incentives to improve a company's health. Sometimes it works. Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, for example, has become one of the world's highest paid executives partly through massive stock options. As Disney's share price has risen, from a split-adjusted value of $14 in 1984, when Eisner took over, to $120.75 recently, Eisner's wealth has exploded. But with stock appreciation like that, you won't hear many shareholders complaining...
...Having called on people to overthrow their repressive leadership, we just sit back and watch them get slaughtered." Other commentators came up with a different analogy: the Red Army halting outside Warsaw in 1944 and doing nothing to stop a Nazi massacre of the Jewish ghetto residents who had risen in revolt...