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...notably fast learner is Hartmut Issel, 19, deputy manager of the retail outlet of East Berlin's Cityback Bakery. Formerly part of a huge government- owned combine, the bakery has become a private corporation but is near collapse because almost all its former customers are locked into exclusive deals with Western suppliers. At one point, production fell from 50,000 loaves of bread a day to fewer than 15,000. "But our bread is just as good, and it's cheaper, so we opened our own shop here in the factory," says newly minted free-marketeer Issel. Customers have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speeding Over The Bumps | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

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