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When the U.S. Postal Service absolutely, positively has to increase its revenues, the process it must go through is not exactly overnight delivery. First its eleven-member board of governors makes a proposal, which is then considered by an independent rate-review commission. The commission's findings in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mails: Putting In Their 2 Cents | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

IGV had been foundering for some time. The blunt, bureaucratic notice of bankruptcy placed responsibility on officials directing the firm. Said the report: "The company could not adjust to the new conditions as its organization and management were not of the required quality." IGV's plants will now be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bankruptcies: Belly Up in Hungary | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

For all its dry bureaucratic tone, the announcement triggered a week of political drama that led within days to the collapse of France's fragile and often acrimonious "union of the left." After a series of all-night marathon discussions, the Communist Party announced that it was quitting Mitterrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: I Have to Survive | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

Dissenting Justice Brennan articulated the newly granted immunity of judges when he said. "If their decision to issue a warrant was correct, the evidence will be admitted; if their decision was incorrect but the police relied in good faith on the warrant, the evidence will also be admitted." Such a...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: High Court Takes Low Ground | 7/24/1984 | See Source »

Volume II has no such liability. Few Americans were on the scene as the Third Reich took form. Shirer was in Berlin, and accompanied Hitler and his entourage to Paris when the Petain government surrendered in 1940. At the start he was a newspaperman; Edward R. Murrow hired him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tracing the Winds of War | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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