Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angrily denounced its neighbor's actions as an unjustified intrusion into its internal affairs, Ceausescu receives no support from other East bloc allies. But with Hungary in the midst of its own economic crisis, including a severe housing shortage and growing unemployment, officials fear that public opinion could turn against the emigres. Says Gabor, a teenage Budapest mechanic: "Why should they get jobs and apartments when we don't have enough for ourselves?" With no sign that Rumania intends to rescind its policies in Transylvania, the refugees may soon become not only a foreign policy issue but a domestic political...
...what kind of superpower will Japan be? How quickly will the country's economic strength turn, as it eventually may, into political muscle? How will the Japanese use that newfound might, and what are the consequences for its closest ally, the U.S.? Can Japan become a truly powerful nation without acquiring a military capability that would frighten and antagonize its friends and neighbors and violate its own constitution? Will the world see a Pax Japonica 25 years from now, or will Japan the banker form a partnership with America the policeman to create a sort of Pax Amerippon...
...York Democrat, is set to introduce the Women's Business Ownership bill, which will include the recommendations in his committee's report. Among other things, the bill would require the Federal Reserve to limit the circumstances under which bankers could question women entrepreneurs about their marital status. When banks turn down commercial-loan applicants, the institutions would be required to notify the companies of their right to obtain in writing the bank's reasons for doing...
...fund in public works like housing projects. Says he: "The future, albeit temporary, riches of the Social Security system offer us a genuine opportunity to deal with some pressing national needs." But critics charge that using the surplus for general governmental programs creates a demand that is hard to turn off once the need for the retirement funds is at hand...
...premise for propagating the royal line in a benign African monarchy, it is as farfetched as it is far-darting. As an excuse for propagating a few laughs, it turns an honorable tradition upside down. Princes and princesses from innocently backward realms used to turn up regularly in movies, looking for romantic and material bedazzlement in the more highly developed lands. This young potentate experiments with the notion that fun may be found in letting royalty rough it for a while below the poverty line. Besides, Eddie Murphy, the nation's top box-office star, is Akeem. And Arsenio Hall...