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There was a time when Mafia and Godfather were alien words in the official Soviet vocabulary, and organized crime was considered an inevitable by-product of decadent capitalism. No longer. Inspired by Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for greater honesty and openness, criminal investigators have begun unraveling a web of crime and corruption, dating back to the Brezhnev years, that stretched from the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan to the highest levels of government in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Inc. Comes to Moscow | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...people say, 'Look, you're the American hope,' or whatever, but I don't look at it that way," says Evans. "I'm swimming mostly for myself, and if I concentrate on what I have to do, then doing well for America will come as a by-product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Getting Ready | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...by-product of the Bruins' dirty play was that they actually managed to outscore the Flyers, 4-2, in the last two periods. The big, bad Bruins won the battles on the ice, but lost the war on the scoreboard...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Boston Hockey: A Day in the Life | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

Hite is not alone in observing the demise of the notion that love " 'tis woman's whole existence," as Byron once put it. "The old female tendency to put all her eggs in the love basket has been muted," says Columnist Ellen Goodman. One by-product of this adjustment, thinks Goodman, is greater reliance by women on other women for friendship -- an observation that accords with Hite's. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, co-author of the Redbook study, also finds this trend striking. "I've heard women say, 'Maybe I should date my husband and live with my best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Off, Buddy | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...scientists suspect that this one may be different. They believe it is magnified by a fundamental change in world climate caused by a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been burning greater quantities of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. One by-product is carbon dioxide, which has entered the atmosphere in ever increasing amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shrinking Shores | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

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