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...percent, 12 points ahead of challenger John Ray and 22 points above Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. While many black voters think Barry's trial made him a martyr to white racism, TIME senior correspondent Jack E. White says Kelly's recent municipal floundering has brought nostalgia for the '80s mayor: "The main thing is, he's remembered as a guy whom the city functioned better under for poor people. They want to go back to the good old days...
...populist strategy of his fabled predecessor Huey Long: tax the thriving oil and gas companies to fund generous patronage and state programs, much of it to the benefit of his coalition of poorer whites, French-speaking Cajuns and blacks. When oil prices took a dive in the mid-'80s, the good times stopped rolling. Edwards "was a sort of perpetual Santa Claus," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, "but now he's got to continually fight to balance the budget." That's dull work for a 66-year-old man who just...
Though association officials deny the charges, Japanese officials claim that the group was integral to North Korean intelligence operations through the 1970s. In the early '80s, the officials say, Chongryun shifted focus to concentrate on siphoning foreign exchange into the North...
...total quality management" was the rage among companies during the '80s, its '90s-style offspring appears to be "reengineering...
...over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber Co. From his Houston headquarters, Hurwitz seems puzzled that other people care about some big trees Pacific owns in Humboldt County, California...