Word: time
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Cover: Illustration for TIME by Mirko Ilic
...TIME INC. MAGAZINES...
...later, at a mass rally, a brand-new Democratic Party was formed. Its program, organizers said, would call for basic human rights, a mixed-market economy and parliamentary democracy. The fledgling party will now try to sell that program to voters unaccustomed to choice, in time for national elections scheduled for next February...
...educators reacted accordingly. "This is an example of something that in the abstract looks like good principle but that results in horrible policy," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. "It is the wrong message at the wrong time." Even the White House was distancing itself from the policy, pointing out that it came from the bowels of the Education Department. At week's end President Bush called for a review of the decision...
...trickle has not escaped the Census Bureau. Last January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important than the number of blacks, however, is the implicit indictment of the North and the redemption of the South contained in this black to-and-fro. "What's unusual is that they were immigrants to another country in a real sense, and ordinarily, immigrants don't go back...