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...year there are also three Anglos, as whites around here are invariably called. Nestled against a high shelf of rock, the school consists of a snug quadrangle of dilapidated buildings on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century Methodist mission. It has a pleasant atmosphere and, if you blur your eyes a bit, looks like a down-at-the-heels New England prep school transferred to a bleak section of the Southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farmington, New Mexico Caught Between Earth and Sky | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

They not only snubbed Big Green, the most sweeping attack on environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Enough Already! | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

This is the shape-shifting landscape of addict and alcoholic. The two terms mean in essence the same thing: a powerless dependence upon one drug or another, whether the chemical is legal or illegal. Here boundaries blur and melt. "Responsible" adults -- fathers, mothers, bankers, Senators, solid citizens -- become dangerous aliens. Their cars fly across the median in the middle of the night. The high began as a creamy indulgence and ends as a squalid necessity, a fix. The soul begins to die. It passes over into realms of the surreal and savage, into moral blackout and passivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In The Land of Barry and the Pilots | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...game's a blur to me," said Kwiatkowski...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: You Wouldn't Have Expected This in Your Wildest Dreams | 11/6/1990 | See Source »

...those students to whom career choicesremain a distant blur on the horizon, theimmediate problems in the finance and bankingindustries are often small cause for alarm...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Seniors Face Tightening Market for Finance Jobs | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

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