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Volcker's critics charge that he has turned the economy topsy-turvy through misguided management of the nation's money supply, and that his two-year-old struggle to fight inflation by slowing the growth of money and credit has sent interest rates leaping and lurching wildly. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volcker on the Spot | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

In New York City, the News (circ. 1.5 million) commands 34% of the newspaper advertising, compared with 60.6% for the prosperous Times (circ. 887,000) and 5.6% for the money-losing Post (circ. 764,000). Onerous union contracts, high overhead and the start-up costs of a misguided (and now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Singing the Big-City Blues | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

President Reagan's economic retaliation against the Soviet Union for its role in the Polish crisis is raising anew some time-worn questions. Do such sanctions work? Are they at best only symbolic? Are they perhaps misguided missiles that ultimately inflict more damage on the country imposing them than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seething About Trade Sanctions | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Lavishly choreographed by Danny Daniels, and at times hilarious, these forays into the protagonists' fantasy lives provide a welcome respite from the general gloom. As director Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Thirties | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Scott makes an abrupt exit after the film's first half-hour, and we are left with his trigger-happy progeny. Director Harold Becker marches the pint-sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Kommando Kids | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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