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...things seem to be happening way too fast in the world economy. Countries no longer slide into recession; they plunge headfirst over the cliff, faster than a fund manager can hit the redial button on his phone. Now that Russia's finances have imploded, the worriers are turning their attention to the other onetime communist colossus grappling with economic reform: China. Since the once vaunted "Asian miracle" has taken on the aura of a curse, a lot of investors and governments are asking if the People's Republic of China will be the next to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Next? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...gathers all the suspects and eliminates them one by one until he fingers the guilty party. The better shows at least try to bring their criminology into the '90s: the key to the solution of Cosby's first mystery -- Who is murdering a corporation's top executives? -- was the redial feature on a victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Murder, They Wheezed | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...extravaganzas mounted every year at the Music Hall, perform four shows daily for 21 consecutive days followed by six days off. Even then they are on call as replacements, and friends of the Rockettes have learned to use a telephone code system (ring twice, hang up, and then redial) to let them know that it is not the Music Hall calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chorus Girls: For 2 Cents a Kick | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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