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Kondratieff Upswing

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

With the best of intentions, you inverted my views by 180° [July 31]. I believe that the world economy entered in 1972 the fifth Kondratieff upswing, not a downswing. At the core of this upswing is the prospect that the prices of energy, food, raw materials will fluctuate in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

A decade ago, just one out of 20 babies born in the U.S. was, in Shakespeare's phrase, "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd." Doctors performed caesareans only in cases in which normal delivery was impossible, or the patient refused to endure vaginal delivery. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Caesareans Up | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Humes argues that the restoration of marijuana to the Pharmacopoeia is particularly necessary in American society today in light of behavioral trends that have accelerated in recent years. "This nation is suffering from an epidemic of anxiety neurosis," Humes says, an epidemic that is "approaching pestilential proportions." In presenting his...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A Healer on the Lam | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

Shahak views the upswing in "religious fanaticism," among both Muslims in the Arab nations and the Jews in Israel, with dismay. He is skeptical of just what "secularism" is taken to mean. He recalls a PLO custom in pre-civil-war Labanon. When a Palestinian fighter died in combat, his...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Dissidence in the Promised Land | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

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