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In an effort to continue to provide such amenities as parks and playgrounds while struggling to maintain basic services like police and fire protection, communities from Baltimore to Oregon City, Ore., are now publishing wish lists of services and items they want but cannot afford. These municipal beggars are soliciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make a Wish | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

As far as Court of Common Pleas Judge Nicholas Papadakos was concerned, Coon was indeed on good legal ground. The judge temporarily halted all mortgage foreclosures in the county. Said Papadakos of the sheriff: "He jumped in, and I'm glad he did. It gave me an opportunity to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting a Sale | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

As the Falklands factor wanes, Thatcher remains her self-assured self. Unemployment is 13.2%, the industrial base continues to shrivel and growth may not exceed 1.5% in 1983; still she boasts that her policies have brought the inflation rate down to 6.3%, the lowest in ten years. She continues to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Who Also Shaped Events: Putting the Great Back in Britain | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

The robust rise of the dollar, which on average gained 11.4% against the world's major currencies, added to the protectionist pressures. As American exports became more and more expensive and therefore less and less competitive in foreign markets, fears of a record trade deficit mounted. A copious influx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Busts and Birth of a Rust Bowl | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

During the Mc Decade the seventies specialized gifts became popular once again. A play by play recording of the 1968 Yale Game wrapped in quick pack instant wrapping paper made gift giving simple. But once again, war up staged commercialism as pleas for money for Vietnam POWs cropped up among...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: Raccoon Coats to Atari Games: A Century's Worth of Shopping | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

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