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...They give people somebody to root for," Landry says...

Author: By Sunah N. Kim, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: The Big Money | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...Midwest housing sales also jumped 9%, and new home construction climbed 39%. But Chicago Realtor Dempsey Travis says a sustained recovery will need more than "one-shot remedies" like the $5,000 tax credit President Bush has proposed for first-time home buyers. "We have to stimulate the underlying root of demand: job creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising High the Roof Beams | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...Playing as a team means that, even if you lose 6-0, 6-0, you still go back and root for your teammates," Fish continued. "It takes a lot of discipline for the players, but that's what we're asking of them...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Netmen Fall Short on Spring Trip | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Faludi dispatches Roseanne and Madonna in one subclause of a sentence, which deprives readers of what would surely have been a lively discussion of two of the decade's most influential symbols. Writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich have praised Roseanne for helping root feminism in the family and give it a raw eloquence. "Roseanne gave working-class feminism a face," says Ehrenreich. "The typical image of a feminist in the media has been the Murphy Brown type -- the very successful, very slender, very perfectly organized professional woman. And we didn't have a media image of another kind of feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Feminism | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...A.W.B.'s pursuit of that goal has earned it a deserved reputation for being not only the most aggressively racist of all the right-wing groups but also the most violent. At the root of its militancy is what it terms the swart gevaar, or black threat, combined with a conviction that reforms during the past decade have amounted to a gradual capitulation to communist-inspired black domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Extremes in Black and White | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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