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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays a woman whose immigrant father was, unknown to her, murdered by her husband with the connivance of the town's whole power structure. The aggrieved woman dreams up a poetic revenge: to re-create within her dying husband's general store a semblance of the festive grape arbor where her family sold wine until they made the mistake of selling to blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Realm of Inspired Ritual | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...million annually to teach its new workers basic English and social skills: "I lie awake at night wondering where I'm going to find well-qualified employees for the future." Even the art of cooking requires more of workers than ever before. Last year Domino's Pizza of Ann Arbor, Mich., discovered that its fledgling bakers had trouble understanding its dough-making manuals. Now it spends $50,000 on a reading program, heavily seasoned with lessons on cuisine chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Literacy Gap | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Bush's chief pollster, veteran of six presidential campaigns, he helped bring Gerald Ford from 30 points behind in 1976 to within a couple of points of Jimmy Carter. Low-key and relatively untouched by Potomoc fever, he has never moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Washington. Teeter's influence on strategy may wane as the aggressive Darman moves in on issues and as Roger Ailes mushrooms all over the place. Still, Bush entrusted Teeter, 49, with paring down the list of vice-presidential possibilities and screening the survivors. Teeter also supervised Bush's acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Bush's Brain Trust | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

After graduating, I went to Ann Arbor. I knew that I wanted to be a writer. I loved the energy of SDS, whose center was there. I did not want to be a professional politico. I went from graduation straight to an SDS convention in New York. I was elected president of SDS right there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `I Thought the Movement Was Going to Be My Life.' | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Aside from taste, the most important weapon of the great pizza war is home delivery. While mom-and-pop parlors have long offered this service, the upstart Domino's Pizza of Ann Arbor, Mich., upped the ante. Promising a $3 discount on the price of any pie that takes longer than 30 minutes to arrive, Domino's, now the second largest chain, has grown to 4,375 outlets. At least one Domino's operator even delivers by boat. Art Hurteau, 29, owner of an outlet on Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, maintains a fleet of ten speedboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saucy Fight for a Slice of the Pie | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

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