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...monsters beating defenseless blacks. The bottom-feeders' message of the truck-driver video was that blacks are savage, racist animals who would beat a man virtually to death because he is white. On that level of discourse, if Americans choose to stay there, there can only be a gridlock of rage: blacks make demons of whites, whites make demons of blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Warriors In Los Angeles | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...politics, who brought in his own television set and VCR so that the faithful can watch tapes of Perot's TV appearances. "People who deny Perot's popularity just don't get it," Okamoto explains. "This movement is about choice. People can't stand another four years of gridlock." Nearly 500 turned out for a Perot rally in Irvine -- middle-class, middle-aged people, who shared both a veneer of affluence and a hunger for political meaning in their lives. California Perot chairman Bob Hayden, who took the unpaid job just four weeks ago, told the crowd, "We're just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot's Army | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...games begin with Gallic zest -- and some gridlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...they are prepared. "The first flake won't even have time to hit the asphalt," says Killy. "It will land on a snowplow." But a few minor accidents on the two-lane mountain roads that lead up to the ski runs, bobsled course and hockey rink could create gridlock in transporting the 2,300 athletes, 6,000 journalists and 800,000 spectators who are to start arriving this week. "If coordination doesn't improve, the Games will be a sizzling failure," warned Andre Baudin, mayor of Tignes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Let The Magic Begin | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Create federal, state and local partnerships to build light-rail lines for urban areas lacking mass transit; support high-speed rail for passengers and freight. To help pay for it, boost taxes on parking and fuel. Such programs would reduce pollution, gridlock and dependence on oil imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Remedies | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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