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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Please, I am the Prime Minister of a government. I can answer your questions as a Prime Minister but not as an ideological prophet. Only by joint effort can we steer Poland into the future. No one undertaking this task has suicide on his mind. He must have hope in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Are Impatient | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...sorry, but I have never been a Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Are Impatient | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Exiting with his chin stuck out was probably the only way Rose could go. He was blessed by the gods not so much with talent as with the insatiable drive to win. A competitor stubborn enough to play long beyond his prime -- and until he could break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Hustle's Final Play: Pete Rose | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Some suggest that Bloch enjoys his notoriety. Yet he has rejected a barrage of telephone calls and messages from Diane Sawyer asking him to appear on Prime Time Live and from Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes. Bloch plays along with the reporters who dog his every step. "Longevity runs in the family," he cautions. "This could go on for another 35 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Lunch with Felix | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...sure, tossing extra money into the pot without follow-up thought and planning amounts to offering easy applause more than productive partnership. But the relative sum assigned is a symbol of priorities. Is the priority for Poland unchanged? Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Vision Thing | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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