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Trick question: What country is the world's leading arms manufacturer -- in per capita terms? Hint: it's not any of the big five in the arms business (the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, Britain and China). The answer: Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Confronting a Tankless Task | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...month string of job losses that began last July. (The number of jobs can increase even as unemployment is rising because the two figures come from different Labor Department surveys that are often at odds.) Says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers: "A strong hint that the recession has just about ended or may have already ended showed up in the May jobs report." But he adds, the economy "is crawling out of the recession, not bursting out of the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Crawling Out Of the Slump | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up The Grader" phrases--"It What force! What gall! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its folliesx, or denounce its barbarities, the truly...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...could ever blackmail Madonna. Indiscretions other stars would pay to suppress she is happy to exploit. A stormy marriage to Sean Penn, a brisk fling with Warren Beatty, the teasing hint of a tryst with Sandra Bernhard, MTV's banning of the gender-blender Justify My Love video: no problem. Every fresh outrage is a soaring career move. Last week Madonna made the front page of the New York Daily News by giving a chatty-sassy interview to the gay biweekly The Advocate. She gets tabloid treatment -- just as much as she wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Does Madonna Wanna Be? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...hint: not Spinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Coming Back to Me Now! | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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