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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since Schmidt's somewhat untimely departure, planning has begun to fix up the area immediately adjacent to the Yale Co-Op, the second largest department store in the city. This plan would improve several important commercial streets and esthetically enhance significant parts of downtown New Haven...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Yale's Iron Curtain | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

...these sacrifices we're willing to make to fix America? Drive more efficient cars, switch to generic nicotine, forswear government aid we don't really need and pay more tax if we're at the top of the heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: What You Can Do for Your President | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

When Chelsea's school committee approached Kevin Carleton, B.U.'s director of media relations, to conduct a study of the school system and offer possible methods of improvement, "there were too many problems to fix," Carleton says...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B. U. STEPPED IN | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

...President will nag as much as the nation's domestic economic troubles, the continuing crisis Bill Clinton has been elected to solve. As the deficit climbs, it is hard to know who is telling the truth, who should be blamed (if anyone), and harder still to get a fix on what exactly Clinton plans to do -- largely because the President-elect is enjoying the honeymoon that all newly elected leaders receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Moving Toward Gridlock II | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...problems, though, New York still has a superb infrastructure for housing, transporting and employing large numbers of people. "It's far easier to fix New York," says Berger, "than to rebuild it in Des Moines." More important, cities such as New York and Tokyo will never lose their role as % marketplaces of ideas. Even as electronic communications increasingly link people over long distances, they still crave face-to-face encounters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megacities | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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