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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration should also match its military option with diplomatic maneuvering to take advantage of its new-found friendship with the Chinese, who ought to be persuaded to drop their support of the Khmer Rouge, a product of their long-standing, virulent hatred of the Vietnamese. Such a move could lead to a new effort at rapprochement with the Vietnamese. They are being bled white by their costly occupation of Cambodia and would likely welcome the chance, on the right terms, to loosen the stranglehold presented by the increasing Soviet military presense in their country. The first step in this diplomatic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time to Remember | 1/23/1985 | See Source »

Although we do not recognize such inalienable rights of the author, our copyright law is not insensitive to this idea, i.e. we tie copyright protection to the lifetime of the author, not just a time period necessary for cost recovery plus "profit". We recognize that Endgame is a product of Beckett's imagination and that he has some right to keep it as he imagined it. Yes, Beckett is stymieing the creative impulse of the artists at the ART, but he did not ask them to produce Endgame and they would be more stymied if he never wrote the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Between Art and Law | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...that real personal disposable income declined in France. The others were 1980 and 1982. The Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand, he said, is still paying for the illfated attempt to spend its way out of recession during its first year of power, in 1981. The gross national product grew by 1.5% last year, and Chevalier expects it to be just 1.1% in 1985. One reward for this austerity is an anticipated decline in inflation, from last year's 6.9% to about 5.8% by the end of this year. The huge trade deficit, which reached $14 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Outlook Brightens Time's | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

Adam has made life tough for Coleco. The company will take an estimated $110 million write-off against 1984 earnings because of the flop. Indeed, Adam might have driven Coleco to its knees were it not for the company's success with another product: the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco last year sold $500 million worth of Cabbage Patcheria, and the pudgy dolls have been the hottest toys for the past two Christmas seasons. Coleco hopes that it will now do better by staying in the cabbage patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Coleco Pulls the Plug | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...defense of his policy of building ties to the West. "We suffered from this, and our forefathers suffered from this. Isolation landed China in poverty, backwardness and ignorance." Only by means of foreign investment and trade, Deng said, could China achieve a paramount goal: to quadruple its gross national product to $1 trillion by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China It Cannot Harm Us | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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