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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So if the bull market in homes really is over, that's not all bad -- unless it gets out of hand. It's one thing to have prices trail inflation for a number of years, quite another to allow a stock-market-style 40% crash in prices. That would leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: When a House Is Just a Home | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

They will also be tapping the deep font of goodwill toward aging sports idols. The American male wants to keep seeing athletes do what they once did best. In golf, the senior circuit earns more money than the entire women's tour. Former tennis aces draw big crowds in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Never Having to Grow Up | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Old Masters, New Tricks | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The headline over a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed, THE COLD WAR IS OVER. President Bush has rightly taken issue with that statement. But as the "spirit of Malta" washes over the West, he may soon find that he is a very lonely member of a virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Rather than just applauding what he has done, let us examine why. When Gorbachev came to power he found he was presiding over a military superpower and a Third World economic power. His clients in Cuba, Viet Nam, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua required huge subsidies. Afghanistan was costing lives as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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