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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal includes $1 billion for highway repair, $1.1 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, $1.2 billion for Small Business Administration disaster assistance and $100 million for loans to low-income people. The president would be given a $400 million discretionary fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Considers $3.8 Billion Quake Aid Bill | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

...property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness to provide adequate funds for the national highway system and toxic-waste removal. But Maloof, a Democrat, is even more upset at his own inability to repair his county's sewers and pipelines. "It's all a residue of Ronald Reagan," Maloof says."He did more than most by telling us you don't have to pay taxes even though you still have needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Government: The Can't Do Government | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...Minister Hun Sen has been winning favorable reviews. Once regarded as a mere puppet of the authorities in Hanoi, Hun Sen, 38, has emerged as a leader with a mind of his own. Whether by conviction or out of cynical self-interest, he has pursued reformist policies designed to repair his country's shattered economy as well as to endear him to skeptical citizens: the institution of land-tenure rights for farmers, the beginnings of a free-market economy and recognition of Buddhism as the state religion. While Hun Sen's cloudy history as a former member of the Khmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia Will It Ever End? | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...they dislike Deng's perestroika because it asks them to compete like capitalists, and capitalism has losers. "Keeping their jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That's what these Chinese officials want. Anything that threatens to upset the applecart sets them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Viet Nam represents a great jagged gash in the fabric of American history, an ugly tear in a tapestry that people once believed had been woven out of high ideals and simple decency. A few years ago, when it became obvious that it was time to repair that rent, our popular culture took on something of the air of a vast quilting bee, with writers, filmmakers and TV producers bending over their restorative needlework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Stitch in Time | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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