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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to lock your door and you can let your children come into downtown alone." Clay Center citizens care about one another, and about outsiders too. The 55-member Rotary Club has raised $30,000 in three years to help administer polio vaccinations around the world. In short, this should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds of jobs in the past decade, which has prompted an exodus of its young people. In all of Clay County, for which the town serves as county seat, the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Town Blues | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

State land, that is. Ever heedful of reluctant conservatives like agriculture boss Yegor Ligachev, who believe the collectives could be resuscitated with an infusion of government funds, Gorbachev stopped short of true privatization. Even as he gave an approving nod to "individual property," Gorbachev announced that conversion to free farming would be on a "voluntary" basis. He also made clear that the leasing scheme would fall within the framework of the collective system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union New Masters of The Land | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Still, some observers warn that the moderate reforms fall short of what is needed to overcome the agriculture crisis. A major obstacle to bolder reforms will be fear among farmers that the push toward privatization may be rolled back again. Such inherent caution cannot have eased when Ligachev announced at a press conference that a free-market agriculture system would be adopted only after there is "an abundance of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union New Masters of The Land | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Chinese-American culture is only beginning to throw off such literary sparks, and Amy Tan's bright, sharp-flavored first novel belongs on a short shelf dominated by Maxine Hong Kingston's remarkable works of a decade or so ago, The Woman Warrior and China Men. Tan's book is a wry group portrait of four elderly and feisty women who emigrated from China to the U.S., and their grown, very Americanized daughters. "A girl is like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tiger Ladies | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

BUSINESS: America's small towns, increasingly short of jobs, services and citizens, must fight to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 13 MARCH 27, 1989 | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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