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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's so good about the free market is that when subject to reasonable government scrutiny to ensure fair play, it tends to harness people's selfishness for the common good, so that in pursuing their own greedy little ends they also tend to work toward satisfying the needs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: I Was a Teenage Communist | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Yet the thing about Communism is that it doesn't work. It tries to change human nature. This is its fundamental flaw. People are selfish. Give them an incentive to work, and they will. Give them a low-risk way to cheat on their taxes, and they will. We do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: I Was a Teenage Communist | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

In the end, the Polish bishops agreed to the diplomatic ties only because Poland's Parliament on May 17 passed laws allowing religious freedoms that are unprecedented in the Communist world. Dozens of new legal provisions now guarantee the rights of Catholicism and other faiths, encompassing such matters as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Longer Poles Apart | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

This includes Western art history and aspects of Japan's own cultural past. Osaka native Yasumasa Morimura, for example, places himself as the main character in carefully staged and photographed "reproductions" of well-known Western paintings like Manet's Olympia. Tomiaki Yamamoto melds brushy abstract expressionism with the pattern-oriented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No More Tributes to Mount Fuji | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

George Bush returned from his first presidential trip to Eastern Europe last week eager to bring a little glasnost of his own to East-West relations. In that spirit, the Commerce Department announced a decision that cleared the way for the sale of a broad range of desktop computers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.K. To Log On, Comrades | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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