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...without conspicuously inspiring the labor force. The congress did not really come to grips with any of the basic problems " says an analyst in Moscow. "The consumer was shown a future that is implicitly dismal. There is no sign of reapportioning resources, no adjustment in who gets a larger slice of the pie. There is no clue about how, specifically, they will deal with the shortage of labor and the need for higher productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brezhnev: A One-Man Band | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

GOING TO the movies today gives one the feeling of being an unwitting contributor to a Hollywood Slice-N-Dice-a-Thon. The Saxon theater, the cheesy upstart of the Sack line, fills its lobby with horror film posters. To the left, a nubile woman is undergoing a tracheotomy by cleaver, and to the right, half-naked women cringe in terror as an ax-murderer emerges from the shadows...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: A Mutant | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...branches. Among the descendants of an African woman called Lijsbeth, for instance, were the President of the Transvaal republic in the Boer War, "Oom (Uncle) Paul" Kruger, and South Africa's first Prime Minister, Louis Botha. In all, Hattingh counted 80 families of mixed racial roots, a substantial slice of the white Afrikaner establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: All in the Family | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...most vivd examples of broad federal cuts in the Reagan plan that will slice into Harvard research projects is the expected 75 per cent reduction in the social and economic divisions...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Educators Fear Cuts in Federal Aid | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

...Hampshire, where taxes are among the nation's lowest, Governor Hugh Gallen wants to slice the state employment rolls by 10% in order to help erase the state's $25 million deficit. Michigan officials were forced to borrow $500 million last month to meet the state's bills, and North Carolina Governor James Hunt is proposing eliminating 1,000 state jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taxing Dilemma for the States | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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