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...like our friendly, small-town skiing. We like our own pristine white slopes...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ski Michigan for Short Slopes, Short Lines | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...BIGGEST ROUNDUP SINCE 1984 AND SIGnaled an important new strategy after decades of fruitless efforts to outfight the Mafia conventionally. Using evidence supplied by the crime syndicate's own members, Italian police arrested 90 suspected members of the Sicilian Mob. Three members of Italy's Parliament and several small-town mayors were among those nabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silence Is Not Golden | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...before: the big-city cop who has burned out his marriage, his career and his spirit in his obsessive, | hopeless pursuit of justice. Now his brother-in-law and sometime partner Freddy (Lance Henriksen) has helped him get what is supposed to be a nice quiet job on a small-town police force in Northern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Is an Outsider | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...middle of the 21st century. Part of the change will be technological: highly advanced computers will serve as both tutors and libraries, interacting with students individually and giving them access to a universe of information so vast that it will make today's Library of Congress look like a small-town facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's Lesson: Learn or Perish | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Favorable conditions are situations in which consumers stand to be ripped off in the absence of a consumer cooperative. Take a small-town general store. If it's the only shop in a town that isn't big enough to support a second store, its owner can price-gouge mercilessly. In this case, the consumers are better off forming a cooperative, buying in bulk and splitting the proceeds...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: UnCoop the Coop | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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