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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps they were being illogical in the expectation. Ronald Reagan's agenda when he came to Washington was to undo as much as possible the work of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now, after 59 months of consecutive economic growth in Reagan's Roaring Eighties, trouble arrived, and everyone (even businessmen who hate Government interference) expected Reagan to start sounding like F.D.R. They may even have wanted him to get on television after the crash and say, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Suddenly they wanted activism from a President who has always believed Government should essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Since coming to power in early 1986, Aquino has survived five coups and rumors of countless others. She has endured confrontations with the left and the right, with Communist rebels and prickly colonels. She has moved too quickly for some Filipinos, too slowly for others, as she tries to undo two decades of corrupt rule by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos. But along the way she has captured the imagination of both her country and the world with her gentle words and indomitable spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines The Coup That Failed | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Whatever set of regulations emerges, it will take time to undo the severe damage to the City of London's reputation. For many Brits, the Guinness affair has reaffirmed a deeply felt suspicion of the City. Recently, 80% of those surveyed in a Gallup poll believed that the charges of "shady dealings" and "corruption" applied to "many" City companies. "I always felt there are bigger rogues at the top than there are at the bottom," says George Payne, a foreman at British Road Services' Oxford depot. "So this is no surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearing That Muck Will Stick | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...skips, half drags itself toward Christmas. We trust that your Christmases are the same. Or have you licked the season too? Have you solved everything? This letter will be propped up in a capsule at the Statue of Liberty, to be opened on the statue's bicentennial. Go ahead. Undo the lock. I see your sharp, bright faces as you hoist us into your life, superior as cats to your primitive elders. Quaint, are we not? Beware of superior feelings. The message in this bottle may turn out to be as much a warning as an artifact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...will be a hard climb uphill. I hope that just as you sympathized with us in our hard days of struggle, so you will support us now in our efforts to build a country to match our pride. As you channeled your power to undo a dictatorship, so may you channel it now to help create an enduring democracy. I ask that you use media's tremendous power to build up rather than to tear down, to create rather than to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Freedom and the Media | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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