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...donned a pink shirt, khakis and cowboy boots to survey the epic flood that has devastated a vast section of Georgia and the Florida- Alabama panhandle. As his DC-9 descended through the clouds to the airport in Albany, Georgia, the President stared at the muddy waters of the Flint River cascading through the city streets below, washing over the roofs of stores, houses and churches. Even before stopping at a disaster-relief center, Clinton had pledged $60 million in federal disaster aid to help the three states provide emergency shelter and drinking water, rebuild federal highways, and make loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell and High Water | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...concerned, from now on, the only person worth turning to is Yeltsin. Maybe later on it'll be Zhirinovsky," concluded Asha, frantically trying to light his pipe with a lighter that had the U.N. insignia on it. No go. I guess there wasn't any flint left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Host to Some Dubious Guests | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Christmas speech, once beamed to GM's faithful around the world. A senior executive says one reason may be the unforgettable scene in the cruelly funny film Roger and Me of Roger Smith reading from Dickens' A Christmas Carol while autoworkers were being evicted from their homes in Flint, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Back on the Fast Track | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler's Curve Master | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Thanks to the "Economist Greats" trading cards released by the economics department at the University of Michigan at Flint, there's another entry in the quick-paced economic arena of collectible cardboard...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: News Briefs | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

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