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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parisian dramatist Jean Cocteau once characterized his fellow Frenchmen as a bunch of Italians in a bad mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Liberte, Egalite, Chaos | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Other sages of the investment community agree. One of Wall Street's hottest gurus, Georgia-based Robert Prechter, has used an arcane branch of analysis known as Elliott Wave Theory to predict that the Dow is on a march that will peak at 3600 by 1988. In December 1985, Yale Hirsch, editor of the newsletter Smart Money, forecast the date of the Dow's 2000 day within roughly a week. Now Hirsch predicts that the index may climb to 2300 within three months and reach 2700 later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bull Tops 2000 | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...While many doctors still keep a low advertising profile, the rest of the health-care industry has suddenly gone for the hard sell. To fill a growing number of empty beds and to stand out amid increased competition, hospitals and clinics have started embracing modern marketing techniques. Result: a wave of come-ons for everything from cancer treatment to fat removal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hospitals Learn the Hard Sell | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...have championed the negotiations with both France and the U.S. for the release of the remaining hostages in Lebanon. He is thought to have tried to reduce Iran's financial support of fanatical terrorism abroad. Some U.S. officials believe that he has argued for an end to the human-wave assaults against Iraq in order to ease public resentment over the war's harrowing cost in lives. Others, however, maintain that Rafsanjani has at times championed the suicidal mass attacks and has a reputation for tailoring his political and military views to meet the situation at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Meantime Back in Tehran | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Soviet Christians, conditions today are relatively stable. There was a wave of church closings between 1958 and 1964. But believers are allowed to worship in the buildings that remain open so long as they register their congregations with the government and do not challenge Communist bans on parish education, evangelism and distribution of Christian literature. Several high-ranking Russian Orthodox ecclesiastics have recently been seen on TV newscasts, usually appearing as supporters of the Kremlin's disarmament policies. Severe persecution is aimed primarily at groups such as those Pentecostalists and Baptists who refuse to accept Soviet controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Taking A Firm Stand Against Faith | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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