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Pipes defended the film, saying it was not meant to predict the future. However, he said such an invasion was possible and compared it to that of Czechoslovakia...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Back in the U.S.S.A. | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Marriage prospects should improve for women in the baby-bust generation. Women tend to marry men a few years older than themselves, and younger women will find larger numbers of potential spouses among the baby boomers. Nonetheless, demographers predict that the smaller cohort of the baby busters will form fewer families, resulting in less demand for housing and household goods. By the middle of the next decade, the number of new households a year could drop to 1.2 million, down from an average of 1.7 million during the 1970s. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome, America, to the Baby Bust | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...present the heterosexuals facing the greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds of the heterosexual cases now are black and Hispanic, concentrated on the East Coast," says Curran. "I would predict that AIDS would spread fastest in those communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: You Haven't Heard Anything Yet | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...candidates for the council Jonathan Myers and Ed Cyr, have already begun to campaign, and some political observers predict the field's eventual size to reach the upper teens...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: November Looms for Council Candidates | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...have two new words: glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). Some in the West mock these words as nothing but lofty sounding political deception. But are they? I have some experience with bitter disappointments in the past, and at first I withheld judgment about glasnost and perestroika. I hesitated to predict a rosy future. But facts are facts, and they are stubborn as a mule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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