Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clay Center's once-a-day bus service along two-lane U.S. 24 stopped two years ago. The bus carried mostly the poor and elderly to see their doctors or relatives an hour away in Manhattan. Bus service also meant that the town's two florist shops could count on daily deliveries of fresh flowers. And repair shops could often get same-day emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge...
...shrinkage of America's small towns will only accelerate as young people continue to leave to find better jobs, even though some retirees have migrated from the big cities to rural areas in search of peace and quiet. Although their money is welcome, older people often fail to see the need for economic development, particularly if it means higher taxes...
...dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
Realistically, there is no intent to pry the East away from Moscow and destabilize the region militarily. But there are those who see every reason to seek systemic change. "Rather than trying to separate Poland from the bloc, we ought to encourage changes there to spread back to the Soviet Union," says Michael Mandelbaum, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Why stop at the Elbe? Let's roll Communism all the way back to Moscow." Unlikely. But if the U.S. and its partners want to move it at all, now is the time to get started...
...mothers thinks, "When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes." If she had inside knowing, "she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear." One of the daughters, carefully fearful, remarks to a friend, "I don't know if it's explicitly stated in the law, but you can't ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder...