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It all marks the end of the most enduring business-labor armistice in Europe, a social contract that allowed Germany to achieve its postwar miracle of industrial prosperity. Perhaps that compact of mutual benefit can be restored eventually. Nevertheless, the size of the wage hikes resulting from the strike will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: End of the Miracle | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Why does the author choose to describe quano as he does, rather than mention its important role in meeting increased demand for agricultural production? Meanwhile, the author fails to mention that Peru was the first world exporter of fish meal in the 1960s and '70s, when considerable foreign investment took...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Trivialize History | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Personal contacts, and larger ones, are slowly beginning to make a difference to the island continent's overall sense of isolation. Despite Australians' fabled reluctance to learn a foreign language, 65,000 are now studying Japanese, more students than in any other country outside Japan, save South Korea and China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: In Search of Itself | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

THANKS TO A HUGE INFUSION OF MONEY AND ARMAMENTS FROM friendly Islamic nations like Iran and Libya, the fundamentalist government of SUDAN seems to be on the verge of winning its 10-year civil war against the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. But there may be more than simple Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An African Homeland for the Palestinians? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Beishenov may soon get his wish. Since the Soviet Union collapsed five months ago, more dramatic changes have been taking place in Central Asia than the sheepherder could ever imagine. Freed from control by Moscow, a vast stretch of the Eurasian continent populated by more than 50 million predominantly Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Asia: Five New Nations Ask WHO ARE WE? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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