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States as diverse as New Hampshire and California went Democratic Tuesday for the first time since 1964 -- not because two young Southerners wowed voters there, but because both states had plunged from prosperity during the Bush years. In the national exit poll conducted by Voter Research & Surveys, a consortium of TV networks, 43% of voters named the economy as the paramount issue -- twice the percentage identifying any other concern. Among that 43%, Clinton topped Bush better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Coalition for the 1990s | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...basic components of a detonation mechanism there for less than you'd pay for a core class sourcebook. And if you need special parts, they'll order them. Ever wonder about that? As it turns out, our friendly electronics store is little more than a supply front for a consortium of paramilitary organizations. Just thought you should know. 12:30 on the ultraprecise Tag Heuer diving watch with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal and unidirectional bezel. Time to call Mark. After informing him per FCC regulation that I was recording our conversation, I began the interview...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: News Books | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...everybody in Hudspeth County concurs. Ever since an Oklahoma consortium, MERCO, announced plans to turn the old 128,000-acre ranch into a repository for millions of tons of New York City sewage, local ranchers and townsfolk have worried about toxic pollution spilling into their air, their soil and the waters of the nearby Rio Grande. But overall there was a strong show of support for the project, because MERCO offered 35 jobs and a $10,000 weekly payroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get on Board the Sludge Train | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...other evening, three guys ran across Candlestick Park brandishing a bed- sheet sign that read PLEASE DON'T GO! Stung by the announced sale of the San Francisco Giants to a consortium representing St. Petersburg, Florida, these three were exercising the birthright of any sports devotee: impotent pleading. This was the charge of the night brigade. But the trio might as well have been riding into the Valley of Death instead of invading the blustery pasture of America's crankiest ball park. The people who buy the tickets, whose taxes pay for the stadiums, who fantasize and fret over their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Build It, and They (Will) MIGHT Come | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

This year's participants will return to one ofthe five consortium schools next summer to pursuea filed of specialization in one of the functionalareas of management...

Author: By John L. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-School Hosts Profs. | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

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