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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But what will the higher minimum wage really mean to the working poor? Though economists are skeptical about business's claims that the increase will lead to large numbers of lost jobs, they also question whether it will do much to improve the lot of low-wage workers. Only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pay Hike for the Poor | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

In the most-fit groups, which included people in the habit of running up to 40 miles a week, death rates tended to be lower still, but the improvement was not so dramatic. In short, says Carl Caspersen, a physical-activity epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Take A Walk - and Live | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

One reason prices have become dangerously affordable is that smugglers have proved so flexible. When federal agents cracked down on shipments through South Florida, traffickers started routing shipments through the porous Mexican border. At the same time, the smuggling industry has plenty of competition. When Colombia's campaign against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Federal officials have never been sure how much cocaine is consumed in the U.S., but the conventional estimate has been 100 tons annually. Since agents have captured nearly that much already this year and seizures are generally ^ considered to represent only a small proportion of total supply, cocaine use could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

THE Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dealt with some powerful enemies in the past. As if combating communist-sympathizing church congregations and advocates of peace in El Salvador weren't enough to keep them busy, the FBI has found yet another grave threat to the national security.

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Tinker, Taylor, Librarian, Spy | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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