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...denominators?the poverty of the many, the wealth of the few and the growing social resentment?knit much of the region together. A rundown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror, Right and Left | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Administration officials this week indicated that President Reagan has tentatively approved a plan to create up to 75 urban "enterprise zones" in rundown urban areas; businesses locating in each zone would receive a battery of tax cuts and credits that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars annually. But while supporters advertise the enterprise zone plan as an economic stimulus, its massive tax-writeoffs will create few new jobs for the needy and force the Administration to slash further the support services so crucial to urban areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deceiving The Cities | 1/12/1982 | See Source »

...speaking, so tense. At a Davenport College party, usually one of the wildest during The Weekend, you meet not one Yale woman, but a host of friendly Albertus Magnus types. Beth, a somewhat typical Albertus student, takes you into a dark corner and, with little prodding, gives you the rundown you have been seeking all day. "The best place to eat, not fancy, but fun, is Gentrees, a little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though it's a little expensive, is the Greenery, down on Chapel St. And you should make...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, SPECIAL TO THE WHAT IS TO BE DONE | Title: Weekend Odyssey in New Haven | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...rundown of major programs and how states are planning to cope with cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Cuts: How Deep is Deep? | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...page book grew out of The Pension Grillparzer, the short story that Irving folded into the heart of Garp. That work tells of a father who takes his family to stay in a seedy Viennese hotel. It is home to a rundown Hungarian circus whose members include a shinless man who walks only on his hands and a depressed bear on a unicycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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