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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is more, there is impressive bipartisan agreement on the reasons for this course. The deficits may choke off the budding economic recovery, all right, but they may not do it-or at any rate, the damage may not be noticeable-until 1985. Meanwhile, there is no great public clamor for action. So with any luck, both tax increases and cuts in Government spending that might offend powerful groups of voters can be put off until after the elections. And if that turns out to be too late? Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Easy Way Out | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...mainland, into a private sheltered lake for submarines armed with missiles that could strike the continental U.S. The southern half of Sakhalin bristles with at least six Soviet airfields and is merely 27 miles across the Strait of Soya from Japan's Hokkaido Island. The strait is a choke point for Soviet naval vessels moving from the Sea of Japan into the North Pacific. Vladivostok and Sovetskaya-Gavan are the main bases for the 820 ships of the Soviet Pacific fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atrocity In the Skies: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down by the Soviets | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...mother's predictions. I was no good and I'd never be any good. I went to Mass every Sunday, and every Sunday I'd say, 'I'll confess.' I couldn't. I'd go into the confession box and choke on the words. When you abuse your child, it seems like you're watching someone else do it. There is guilt, horror, pain. Society need not hate us. We hate ourselves. No one hates an abusing parent more than the abusing parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: The Ultimate Betrayal | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...record strength delights American tourists, but could choke the recovery

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reining In the Runaway Dollar | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness of the whole human mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Curmudgeon Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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