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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolution as well as Deng Xiaoping's marketplace-led revolt. Poland combines robust political competition with a downtrodden economy almost too far gone for reform. Hungary combines an explosion of private enterprise with a less vigorous attitude toward democracy. The message the U.S. and its West European allies can bring to both places is the truth that lies at the heart of democratic capitalism: economic and political freedoms work best in tandem...
...inning homer by Boston's Carlton Fisk: 3-0, 3-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-6, 7-6. During and after it, Rose called that game the best he ever knew, the one he almost didn't mind losing. Only in the past few days could that possibly bring a sneer...
...Japanese government imposed new curbs on ivory imports, surprising and delighting environmentalists worldwide, who fear that the African elephant faces extinction in the wild. Japan is also preparing a new multibillion-yen program of environmental aid for developing countries. Government insiders promise the new emphasis on the environment will bring results. "Once Japan decides to do something, it can move very quickly," says Takashi Kosugi, a Diet member and the leading environmentalist in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
Even more remarkable is the effort of traditional business hotels to cater to families. By one estimate, as many as 10% of all business trips include children. At large medical and other professional conventions, up to a third of participants bring the family. In a highly competitive industry, hoteliers have found that children's services can help win loyal business travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business...
...into that plan by offering the shareholders a better price," said Ralph Whitworth, director of the United Shareholders Association, a Washington-based advocacy group. "It should have been left up to the shareholders to decide" how to vote on Paramount's proposal. Disappointed Time stockholders may be inclined to bring lawsuits accusing the company of failing to look after their immediate interests. Said a top Time executive: "Of course, there will be a lot of shareholder suits. But there will be a lot whatever we do." Many Wall Street analysts believed Time's new play for Warner could attract additional...