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...really count," she rationalizes. In Chicago, Donna Needy, 41, a casualty-company exec, begins each weekday with a healthy dose of high-fiber Metamucil powder and follows up with a strict 900-calorie diet. But, she confesses, "the 900 calories can be anything: ice cream or Fannie May lemon butter creams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Let Them Eat Cake! | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...interesting people. I just assumed I was an unlucky rider. Not everyone sits next to an old woman who talks about her poodle for 300 miles. Not everyone sits next to a kid who punctuates his conversation about motorcycles with burps that smell of three-day old peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ten Questions of the Universe | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...perestroika and an eventual certainty on the Soviet agenda. But mindful of the disruption that such reform has caused not only in China but also in parts of Eastern Europe, he has done virtually nothing to cut back on state subsidies for everything from bread to meat and butter, which keep prices low but drain off billions of rubles annually. So far the leadership has not presented any plan for price reform, but the issue has triggered public debate. Says a parliamentary deputy: "Prices are not so much an economic category as political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Too Far, Too Fast? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...tough leathery exterior, but inside he's warm and mushy--you put a pat of butter on top, and you're in business," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Held for Quayle; Is This a Lampy Joke? | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

Polish workers were also demanding pay hikes of as much as 100% to compensate for an inflation rate that has now reached 60% annually. With a pound of butter costing half a day's wages and the wait for an apartment in Warsaw calculated at 50 years, one resident of the capital asked, "What are the arguments for not going on strike?" The workers were supported by Poland's Roman Catholic bishops, who criticized the regime in unusually harsh terms and called for the government to honor 1980 agreements to recognize Solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Young and Restless Neighbors | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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