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...campaign promises transform into presidential proposals, sometimes with startling differences, voters in Montgomery County are starting to squirm like patients in a dentist's waiting room. Everyone is resigned to a little pain, but all are praying they can avoid a full-blown root canal. "Basically, I'm preparing to have to dig deeper into my pockets in the near future," says Sherwin Eisman, the Republican mayor of middle-class Huber Heights (pop. 40,000), near Dayton. He fears that additional federal taxes will inspire local voters to reject any attempts to raise local levies, including a May ballot proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in It for Us? | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...Vance plan would let the Bosnians do that within a largely ceremonial and insubstantial Bosnian state. Yet there is much grumbling in the U.S. about Vance. Those who worshipped him when his State Department was negotiating away American control of the Panama Canal now find him insufficiently zealous in ; defending Muslim interests in Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doves Are Right About Bosnia | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Lois M. Gibbs, who fought for the cleanup of New York's Love Canal in the late 70's, said last week that the referendum was needed to protect residents from the effects of toxic waste...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Partisans Take Sides in Referendum Fight | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now. Almost a generation older than Picasso, his counterpart, he was born in 1869, the year the Suez Canal opened and Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale. Everything that looked modern in Matisse's environment is now ancient, from the gas buggies that were just coming onto the streets of Paris when he was a student in Gustave Moreau's atelier to the Vichy politicians who ran France during the Nazi occupation as he painted in Vence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Matisse The Color of Genius | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...army. He worked harder than anyone and had fun at it besides." No other cub reporter would have played along so willingly when Binder, trying to prevent Sulzberger from going home on time and spoiling a surprise birthday party, asked him to get quote after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from him. Then another elder statesmen, and another. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Times Of His Life: ARTHUR SULZERGER JR. | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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