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Defenders of the program contend that this does not mean the principle is flawed but that the distribution formula should be changed. They concede, however, that federal income tax revenues, which once seemed limitless, can no longer provide the surpluses needed to prop up local budgets. At the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drive to Kill Revenue Sharing | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Mamou is a dog-eared old town, with a not-quite-finished look about it, as though its builders knocked off a week or two early. It is a low town, with one main street full of bars, set in farming country where people raise soybeans one year, rice the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Yet, we all accept with resignation the Knowledge that our fellow students are altogether too anxious to squeeze us off of the serving line, or giggle and chatter loudly throughout the course of an hour lecture. Perhaps it is the impersonal nature of classes and large dining hall-in which...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: We Need You, Emily Post | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

The financial squeeze has been greatest on the families that run medium- size farms. These growers, whose annual sales typically range from $40,000 to $200,000, operate about 23% of America's 2.4 million farms and take in about 40% of total cash receipts. They are suffering on two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Grapes of Wrath | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Well, the '60s are prehistory now, and nothing ages as fast as futurism. So it seems anachronistic for David Lynch, the gifted eccentric whose only previous features were the $20,000 Eraserhead and the $5 million The Elephant Man, to spend some $50 million (not another one!) bringing Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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