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- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: How Low Can We Go?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- How Low Can We Go?
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- <p> In public, Administration officials shy away from the R word--recession, that is--when talking about the economy. But
- now they privately acknowledge that the nation is in a serious
- downturn. Bush advisers say the economy will show negative
- growth for the fourth quarter at an annualized rate of nearly
- 3%. Says a senior analyst: "Chances are better than fifty-fifty
- that the first quarter of 1991 will be negative too." If that
- proves correct, the economic contraction would fit the
- generally accepted definition of a recession. Despite the bad
- news, the White House does not plan to change its wait-and-see
- attitude. "Nobody here or up on Capitol Hill has anything in
- their bag of tricks to help the economy right now," says
- another presidential aide.
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- </body>
- </article>
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