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...statehouses across America. From Seattle to Boca Raton, Fla., government officials are gunning for the economic growth that new companies can bring. Local officials have long poached upon sister cities and states, of course, by snatching away their businesses. But now, with most local governments caught in a crunch between rising costs and shrinking federal subsidies, the practice has become a heated struggle...
...says, "while TIME's readers are consumers." TIME's more hectic, weekly schedule also took some getting used to. "I'm impressed with the speed with which things happen around here," he says. His staff was equally impressed with Colvin's speed at adapting. "He handled an unusually heavy crunch of covers and major breaking stories without missing a beat," says associate editor Janice Castro...
...requirements stringent enough to match the admittedly strenuous job of writing a thesis must involve courses other than the normal midterm-paper-final departmental courses. What would those courses be? More seminars? More tutorials? More undergraduates in graduate-level courses? These plans do little to ease the teaching crunch faced by departments, which the staff hopes to alleviate...
...crunch followed a long skid, and the damage looks heavy. Battered by recession and increasingly stiff competition from Japanese rivals, General Motors lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 1991, while Ford lost $884 million, and Chrysler dropped $341 million. Total: an astonishing $2.4 billion, the largest three-month deficit in automotive history. Worse, the Big Three have accumulated $4.5 billion in red ink since last fall, when the gulf crisis shattered consumer confidence, and the companies seem certain to remain in the red for the rest...
BUSINESS: Detroit's Brutal Crunch...