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Cleaning up messes has long been relegated to women's work, as have certain other issues that have suddenly risen to the top of the political agenda, like worrying over the young, the aged, the sick and the environment. Surveys show that women are perceived to be better than men on these issues, as well as to have higher ethical standards and greater honesty. "Our stereotype," says Democratic Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, "is finally in." Pollster Mervin Field goes further, predicting that the 1990s will be the "decade of women in politics...
Energy consumers complain, however, that Big Oil has been less moderate in boosting prices of other products. Heating fuel has risen about 45%, to 88 cents per gal. The biggest run-up has occurred in jet fuel, which has zoomed 100%, to $1.40 per gal. "Petroleum producers are reluctant to stick it to the little guy, so I think they are attempting to shift more of the expense to a place where the average consumer won't see it immediately," contends David Messing, a spokesman for Continental Airlines...
...half the business they had a year ago." The government gave fresh evidence of the worsening pain last week, reporting that the unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in September, up from 5.6% in August, for the third increase in a row. Not since the 1981-82 recession had unemployment risen for three straight months. In several Midwestern and Southern states, the jobless rate has already topped 7%. Since July, the U.S. has lost nearly 500,000 jobs...
...gyrating cost of crude is the single most volatile factor in the world economy's fate. Since the Iraqi invasion, the price of oil has nearly doubled, to a spot rate of $37 per bbl. at the end of last week. America's monthly bill for imported oil has risen in proportion, to an estimated $7 billion, with the increase acting as a depressant on the economy. The price of regular unleaded gasoline has climbed 27 cents a gal., to $1.35, since early August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise...
Stalin knew perfectly well who might have voted against him -- certainly not the likes of Khrushchev, who had risen through the ranks under Stalin and who deified him. No, Stalin understood that it was the old cadres from Lenin's time who were displeased with...