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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Depression. Marriner Eccles, a Republican banker from Utah who became head of the Federal Reserve Board in the 1930s, explained, "While the national income rose to high levels, it was so distributed that the incomes of the majority were entirely inadequate, and business activity was sustained only by a rapid and unsound increase in the private debt structure." Today there are disturbing parallels. Some 55% of American households owe more than they own in financial assets. And in 1985 household debt relative to disposable income reached a postwar high of 88%. Nor is economic inequality necessary for an efficient economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Better Off? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...newly invigorated presidency but also retained his post as Communist Party General Secretary. Of the twelve voting members of the ruling Politburo, all but three have now been appointed by Gorbachev. Yet at 57 he remains the group's youngest member, a reminder of just how remarkable his rapid rise to power has been. Other major moves -- up, down and sideways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners And Losers | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...mainframe computers that do much of the most vital information processing in the U.S. remain relatively unscathed. "With mainframes, we've got a whole regimen of quality control and data integrity that we use," says Bill Wright, a spokesman for EDS. But with the rapid spread of PC-to-mainframe linkups, that safety could be compromised. "If the same sorts of standards aren't applied soon to the PC environment," says Wright, "it's going to be a real problem for the whole industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

There was yet another unexpected consequence of the experiment. After being injected with human immune cells, many of the mice suddenly developed rapidly growing cancers, perhaps caused by a virus in the blood of some of the donors; mice injected with cells not exposed to this virus did not develop the tumors. The implications for cancer research could be enormous: the rapid growth -- in eight to 16 weeks -- would afford scientists a rare opportunity to track the emergence and spread of cancer. Said Mosier: "This is an extraordinary breakthrough. We may be able to dissect that tissue week by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Mice as Stand-Ins for Men | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...comes from East St. Louis, Ill., which is more than just seven miles removed from St. Louis. In rapid order, she was the second of four children born to children, Alfred Joyner and Mary Gaines, 14 and 16 the day they wed. When Jackie says she's preoccupied lately with thoughts of "all the people who dedicated themselves to helping a young girl dream," she starts with a family huddled several generations strong in either the coldest or the warmest ( house on Piggott Avenue, across the street from a tavern, down the block from a pool hall, around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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