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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan which turns management of one of the most impoverished school districts in the metropolitan area over to Boston University (B.U.) continues to draw fire from community members nearly one month after its initial implementation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community Criticizes B.U. Public School Plan | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...trail of a cool, vicious Japanese gangster (Yusaku Matsuda). Their contact in the Osaka constabulary is a by- the-book gent (Ken Takakura) affronted by Douglas' bullying. You've seen this picture before; last year it was called Red Heat. "Theft is theft -- there is no gray area," Takakura observes, and Douglas ripostes, "New York is one big gray area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bakelite In Heat | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...will triumph over adversity. The Oakland A's were the preseason favorites in the American League West. Even after moody slugger Jose Canseco missed the first half of the season and superstar stopper Dennis Eckersley soon joined him on the disabled list, manager Tony La Russa kept the Bay Area Bombers at the head of the pack. Now Eckersley and Canseco (who just unveiled a 900 number for fan calls) are back, joined by the sultan of swipe, base stealer Rickey Henderson, rescued from the clutches of the New York Yankees. Still, the A's must shake off the Angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Days Dwindle Down | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...them was the collective's chairman, Vitali Vladimirovich Stengach. A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities. Sitting in his huge office and guzzling a glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done. As it turns out, he's a bezdelnik" -- the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ukraine Planting Some New Ideas | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Beginning as a tropical depression, an area of low pressure off the west coast of Africa, it whirled across the Atlantic, gathering strength from the moist tropical air, puffing itself up into a fearsome 150-m.p.h. hurricane. At week's end Hurricane Hugo, its fury spent, whimpered out in rainfall over southern Canada. Between its gentle birth and welcome demise, Hugo carved an awesome arc of destruction in a 2,300-mile sweep from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to the Carolinas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winds Of Chaos | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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