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...Florio learned the hard way, if you bump up too hard against suburban interests, you can quickly go from popular Governor to political chump. Two years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court directed the state to reduce disparities in school funding between affluent suburban communities and inner cities. In an attempt to comply with the court order, Florio pushed the Democratic-controlled legislature to agree to $2.8 billion in new taxes, including an increase in sales tax from 6% to 7%, along with deep cuts in state jobs and spending programs. He also redirected a portion of state education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Your Land. . . This Land Is My Land | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...once a police-car garage -- the show looks like the Gotterdammerung of academic Postmodernism: inflated, whining, self-indulgent and occasionally clever-clever. Given thousands and thousands of square feet in which to diffuse itself, the intellectual vacuity of the artists is such that their molecules of thought hardly even bump together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dada for The Valley Girl | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Describing a treacherous bump on the women's downhill course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Peaks & Valleys | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...subdued but unambiguous Russian anger over the underwater bump on February 11 in the Barents Sea, near the Arctic Ocean, was a throwback to Cold War rivalries and a reminder of the powerful weapons the countries still have deployed against each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 2/19/1992 | See Source »

...shouting, "Heil Hitler!" Jenco had his mouth sprayed with deodorant to stop his snoring. More than five years after his release, the Roman Catholic priest can still vividly remember the cruel games his captors would play, spinning him around and around, then laughing when, dizzy and disoriented, he would bump into things. One of the most searing moments came when a man in copper-tipped cowboy boots stood on Jenco's head. "I am not an insect!" Jenco cried out. "I am a person of worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lives in Limbo | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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