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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in food supplies because prices and incomes had been frozen throughout July, and Poles, aware that sharp increases loomed, had cleared store shelves of most commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland To the Brink - and Back Again | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Says New York University's Lawrence Schiffman: "The material could be published in a very short time if the circle of scholars were enlarged." That is prevented by a system of control that dates from the early discoveries in what was then part of Jordan. After rapid publication of the first finds by Israelis, Jordan authorized creation of a select group of antiquities experts, all Christians, with exclusive rights to study and publish the rest of the manuscripts. The favored scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...would create something akin to social democracy. Perhaps most daring, it proposes eliminating Article VI of the Constitution, which entrenches the Communist Party as the "leading and guiding force" in all aspects of the society. Dumping this provision would effectively reverse Lenin's totalitarian doctrine that the party must control the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Chipping Away at an Icon | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back and let an Anglo minority continue to control most of the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Time Machine | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...policy adviser, thus being granted a rare chance to witness the chemistry of leadership. "We have tended to equate success and action. We sometimes confuse action with accomplishment. A President is instantly under enormous pressure to 'do something.' It is vitally important for him to have his emotions under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Courage of Restraint | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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