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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more neutral observers wonder whether Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party government in Canberra is the villain or the scapegoat. Agriculture is a notoriously boom-and-bust business. If any single factor is to blame, it is probably Australia's dodgy trading position in a rapidly industrializing part of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia Slaughter Down Under | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...because the leadership of the health- sciences research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leon Rosenberg: The Growing Crisis | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

From Kremlin bigwigs to local apparatchiki, Soviet leaders are now conceding what Western experts like Hedrick Smith--Moscow correspondent for the New York Times from 1971 to 1974--have known for decades: Lenin's experiment is a bust...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Eyeing the New Russia | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

...some divestment-activist punks making waves? You send a few guys out to bust some heads and those pansies will get the message. Believe me, they'll learn some respect quick once a few of them end up in wheelchairs...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...economy cooperates, they may just pull it off, with some help from demographics. This baby-bust generation is about one-third smaller than the baby boomers who came before, which means that employers competing for skilled workers will be drawing from a smaller pool. Today's young people hope that that fact, combined with some corporate consciousness raising about the importance of families, will give them bargaining power for longer vacations, more generous parental leaves and more flexible working conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Equality: The Dreams of Youth | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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