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Word: ende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...end, the Polish bishops agreed to the diplomatic ties only because Poland's Parliament on May 17 passed laws allowing religious freedoms that are unprecedented in the Communist world. Dozens of new legal provisions now guarantee the rights of Catholicism and other faiths, encompassing such matters as the church's right to own property, build churches, publish freely and operate charities. The Polish church will also receive compensation for buildings the Communists seized in the 1950s, and members of the clergy are guaranteed pensions. Most observers believed the timing of the decision strongly signaled Pope John Paul's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Longer Poles Apart | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Sensing victory, the Mezhdurechensk miners went back to work, but the strikes were just beginning elsewhere in the Kuzbass and the Ukraine as workers pressed for assurance they would share in the government concessions. At week's end the strike in Kazakhstan was winding down, but workers in the Donbass still held out over pension questions, prompting a government pledge that all the issues would be considered without delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Revolution Down Below | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...final analysis, everyone from corporate chieftains to cab drivers realizes that the expansion cannot go on forever. "Someday, some event will end the extraordinary string of economic advances that has prevailed since late 1982," Greenspan told Congress last week. So far, Greenspan has provided a delicate touch in stifling inflation without making the kind of sudden moves that could trigger a recession. The U.S. may be in for only a brief and relatively innocuous reversal like the one in 1961 rather than the painful contraction of 1981-82, when the unemployment rate averaged 8.7%. The current slowdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Big Slowdown: Adrift in the Doldrums | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...making the affidavit public, the police clearly hope to bring in more evidence. Stevens has repeatedly refused to talk with them. At week's end authorities had begun the laborious task of sifting through the material gathered from Stevens' residences, searching for the clues that would solve the stubborn mystery at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Stalking The Green River Killer | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...temperatures that drop below -43 degrees F, in blinding blizzards that can last days. Both sides admit that 8 out of 10 casualties are caused by the harsh conditions -- including soldiers being swept away in cascades of snow or tumbling into crevasses. Says a Pakistani officer at the northern end of the Saltoro sector: "We are brave. They are brave. And we both face the same enemies: the weather and the altitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Himalayas War at the Top Of the World | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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