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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Harvard-educated technocrat, who was responsible for implementing the unpopular austerity measures undertaken by the Madrid government during the last six years, has effectively argued that the country needs a smaller, less cumbersome bureaucracy, along with freer trade and increasing incentives for private industry. He has also called for further long-overdue reforms such as returning highly efficient state-run enterprises to private control and removing a wide range of consumer subsidies...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Mexico on the Brink | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...That indeed was a referendum on whether we're going to have more markets and freer trade, both ways," Bush said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Meets Salinas, Praises Mulroney | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

...unimaginable just a few years ago: Andrei Sakharov, 67, for years one of the Soviet Union's most famous dissidents, on U.S. soil. The Nobel Peace prizewinner and ex-prisoner of Gorky arrived in Boston last week on his first trip outside the Soviet Union and declared himself a "freer man." A supporter of perestroika since his release from internal exile two years ago by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Sakharov was traveling with official approval and a blue VIP passport. At a press conference he urged the U.S. to back Gorbachev's reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Dissident Comes Calling | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet Union's restless Baltic republics to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The immediate provocation for most of the popular outbursts was worsening economic deprivation. But on a deeper level, frustrated East Europeans were prodded into action by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tantalizing vision of a reformed and freer model of Communism. The protests also underscored a generational shift to younger activists, whose hopes and experiences differ markedly from those of their elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Young and Restless Neighbors | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...blue-collar vote. Gephardt has corrected his early campaign deficiencies, developing a strong populist message, a compelling delivery, and eyebrows. But unless he is willing to put his $48,000 Hyundai on cinder blocks, it may be hard for him to reconcile his protectionist philosophy with Dukakis' belief in freer trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching For Mr. Right | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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