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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Israelis it was a week of unrelieved bad news. The inflation rate rose to a peak of 133%. The coalition government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened to fall apart again over disputed cuts in defense spending. Angry squatters completed a tent settlement in Jerusalem to protest the housing shortage. Most disturbing of all, however, was a revelation in a parliamentary debate: more citizens are leaving Israel than at any time since the country was founded 32 years ago, on the very principle of the Jews' return to the land of Zion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Leaving the Land off Zion | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...peak of the social hierarchy is an elite, known as the nachalstvo (roughly, the Establishment), which includes perhaps a million people. This privileged group consists of a ruling class -those wielding power in state, party and military circles-and an upper class, comprising party-favored intellectuals, artists and top athletes. Whether they enter this exclusive club via the committee room, the Bolshoi stage or the hockey rink, members of the nachalstvo are assured of hidden perks denied to ordinary citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S.S.R.: How to Succeed by Really Trying | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Alexander Krylov, a top Soviet oil expert and a member of the Academy of Sciences, has predicted that "national oil output will peak in a relatively short time and then start to fall." Yet other energy experts in both the East and the West are more optimistic about Soviet potential. Leading Kremlin officials insist that their country will remain a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the next 50 years. Economist Marshall Goldman of Wellesley College maintains in his book The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum: Half Empty or Half Full? that the Soviets will actually increase production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Tough Search for Power | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Interest rates continued to slide almost as rapidly as they went up last winter and early spring. Major banks reduced their prime rate on business loans to 13%, far below the unheard-of peak of 20% reached in April. Fundamentally, that is a note of cheer: the decline will make it easier for consumers to finance purchases of houses and cars and for businesses to build new plants. But not much easier: the rates are still higher than any reached before 1979. And the speed and depth of the drop shows how abruptly the high rates choked off the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Bad News Gets Worse | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...Manhattan to review the nation's quickly deteriorating business situation. After looking at the economy's vital signs, the experts concluded that the recession of 1980 will be longer, deeper and more painful than was expected only a few weeks ago. Unemployment threatens to climb to a peak of 9% or more by early 1981, matching and perhaps even surpassing the 9% jobless rate that was briefly touched during the 1973-75 slump. Next month's release of growth figures for the second quarter is expected to show the economy dropping by about 8% on an annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recession: Long and Deep | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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