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...corn on conveyer belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich barnyard kind of smell, a cloying excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

DelVecchio said that the pipe that enters the Charles next to the Anderson Bridge is controlled by the DPW and is used in cases in which the sewer system overflows from excess rainwater or system problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Head Fans Find Charles Clean? | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...temporary and point out that especially broad decontrols in the southern province of Guangdong enacted experimentally in November 1987 were eventually accepted. Others are not so sure. Su Shaozhi, China's most eminent ideologist, is convinced that Communist states, as currently constituted, are "societies of scarcity of supply and excess demand." The only way to cure that dilemma, he argues, is to permit political pluralism, giving workers a voice in running the economic system in return for their sacrifices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Too Far, Too Fast? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...column, Walsh estimated that the affiliated housing "brings the University between $2,216,057 and $5,255,848 in excess income or windfall profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affiliate Housing Rents Rose For '88-'89 Year | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION: States with greatest percentage of houses with radon levels in excess of 4 picocuries per liter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tracking The Radon Threat | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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