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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, some currency experts believe that the dollar will rise again in the next six weeks to three months, since U.S. interest rates remain relatively high compared with levels in Japan and West Germany. The prime reason for high U.S. rates is the heavy Government borrowing necessary for financing the budget deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DOLLAR This Time We Really Mean It | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Mockler is less photogenic than Victor Kiam (Who, to use his own words, liked Remington so much he bought the company), but his rhetoric aims to create the same audience rapport as Kiam's TV appearances. "This one's for everybody" is a prime example of what historian of advertising Roland Marchand has identified as "the parable of the Democracy of Goods...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Shaving 'Til You Disappear | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...other guests prattle on about the British Prime Minister, some even in English, the new language of the New China, I am transfixed by the marriage of the two coffins in front of me. The groom died in an automobile accident five days earlier at the age of 23. The body of his bride, dead of cancer for five months, cost $3 to exhume. They had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Environmentalists praised Japan's actions but noted that the reduction in drift-net use was much less sweeping than the ivory ban. Said New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer: "Any drift netting in the South Pacific is unacceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: About-Face | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Irish Republican Army immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. In a statement that was released in Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to Protestant assassins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Day the Music Died | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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