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Boom in the gloom-and-doom business of investment seminars They are the rock concerts of the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Profits from Bad Times | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Congratulations on your choice for Man of the Year [Jan. 5]. Ronald Reagan brings a new philosophy, pride and confidence to our country, and will sweep away the gloom and doom that dominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

More terrorism, hardship and scandal provoke gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: In a Trough of Trouble Again | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...people tried to buy scarce delicacies for the year-end holidays. In every city, town and hamlet, citizens stood in line in hopes of getting a carp for the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. When available, the fish cost $1.22 a pound. In downtown Warsaw, as a Dickensian gloom settled over the capital one evening, more than 70 people queued up before a seedy, barren-looking candy store in hopes of buying chocolates for their children. The shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity's strike threats last month. "People are buying three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Queues and More Queues | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...first surprise, how the subject of Jimmy has vanished like dew. It is literally true that in four days of engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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