Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces express determination, involvement, expectation but also anxiety, for Mikhail Gorbachev is well on his way to creating a new U.S.S.R. TIME presents a 63-page report on how his reforms are changing the Soviet Union, from polling booth to factory, from classroom to stage, from wheat field to metropolitan market. Whatever course the Gorbachev revolution finally takes, it is already one of the most momentous events of the second half of the 20th century...
...paying light-manufacturing businesses. Many of those jobs, however, were eventually lost to even lower-wage foreign suppliers, especially during the run-up in value of the U.S. dollar in the early 1980s. During this decade, rural areas have created new jobs at only 40% the rate of metropolitan centers...
...traditionally saw rural development as worth the price. Says Jack Tierce, an administrator at the Kansas state corporation commission: "The transportation system of the U.S. was based on moving people from the densely populated East out West. Now it is driving people from rural areas into metropolitan areas." Cities get better service simply because customers are more concentrated and thus more profitable to accommodate...
Secondary boycotts, particularly in the NewYork metropolitan area, could disrupt commutes forhundreds of thousands of people...
...District Judge Robert Patterson on Sunday signed a temporary order blocking sympathy strikes by workers at three railroads in the metropolitan New York area, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The order was not made public immediately...