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Articles in August, 1989 issue of Economist (US), The

• Dangerous doctors. (British Medical Association political activity)
• Collor television. (Fernando Collor de Mello's campaign gets boost from TV mogul Roberto Marinho)
• Quest for Prosperity.
• Go to jail. (Atlantic City political scandals) (American Survey)
• The near-impossibility of Lebanon. (editorial)
• The enemy with a thousand faces. (cancer)
• Tackling the future. (National Football League)
• Astride her trolley. (Lady Porter, right-wing leader of Westminster Council)
• Voting practices. (Chile)
• Hello, is that the king? (relations between Nepal and India)
• Blacks in their place. (Americans' resistance to Black America)
• Poland in mid-leap; arms and legs flying wildly, as you would expect. (editorial)
• A Forestry in Crisis: The Battle for the Hills.(Children's Review)
• More plastic, ma'am? (credit cards in Britain) (Finance)
• Getting physical; national-income accounts do not properly value natural resources; but changing that can be difficult. (Business; Economics Focus)
• Consensus and catharsis. (Greece) (Europe)
• Playing the black card. (black opposition in South Africa) (International)
• The case of the simple spy; Korea's politics is sounder than it was, but it is still not as sound as Korea's economics. (Asia)
• Companies go private; British and American firms increasingly see privacy as a virtue, the stockmarket as a vice. (editorial)
• Dawn of the bigtime. (Woodstock twenty years later )
• Takeover and make over. (effects of takeovers on the employment of production workers)
• Safety in numbers. (Hewlett-Packard)
• Answers came there none. (is there any hope for peace in Northern Ireland?)
• Get thee from the nunnery. (Jews and Catholics argue over a convent in Poland)
• Long road home. (Nicaragua)
• All Kaifu needs is a miracle. (Toshiki Kaifu)
• Banners yet waving. (American flag) (editorial)
• The calf's lesson. (lactoglobulin aids in absorption of medicines)
• Low rolling. (Atlantic City economic conditions)
• Inhuman rites. (prison reform in Turkey)
• Butchery and the general's crusade. (General Michel Aoun; Lebanon conflict) (includes related article on conditions in Beirut)
• Singapore gives America a helping hand. (offer of military bases)
• Textbook terrorism. (creationists trying to halt teaching of evolution) (American Survey; includes related article on creationists' beliefs)
• Churchill's Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind.
• Death of a sales-pitch. (British life assurance)
• A licence to print, or lose, money? (cable television in Hongkong)
• Odd Todd. (Ron Todd; London dockworkers strike)
• Reading the body language. (Britain and Argentina)
• Time for tea. (Sri Lanka)
• Passing the buck. (the states)
• Taking the cleaners to the cleaners. (were Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers properly protected against the dangers of oil?) (Science and Technology)
• Double your Dutch; shares on Amsterdam's booming stockmarket look to be good value, better that those in Brussels. (Finance; Market Focus)
• The dragon's embrace. (trading companies in Hong Kong) (Business)
• Pilot dropped. (politics in West Germany) (Europe)
• Pharaonic. (Dominican Republic's Joaquin Balaguer) (International)
• Sunken treasure. (admiralty law) (American Survey)
• Let cash compete. (Britain should ban credit card networks from forbidding retailers to offer discounts for cash) (editorial)
• A Study in Banking.
• A Wall Street party. (stock prices)
• Let them eat snow peas. (cash crops rather than food are grown in most poor countries)
• The hole in the map. (A Survey of Eastern Europe)
  by Beedham, Brian
• Show-time. (Soviet Union)
• Faith, here's an equivocator. (the hostage crises in the Middle East)
• Mettlesome priest. (George Augustus Stallings)
• A fast track for drugs. (the Food and Drug Administration's drug approval policy) (editorial)
• A giant LEP for mankind. (large electron-positron collider) (includes related article on how the LEP works)
• Allez-oop, Angleterre. (satire; correspondent, pretending to be French official, describes how he would deal with south-east of England)
• The tide hesitates. (politics in Central America)
• Made in America.
• Asking for more. (Medicaid) (American Survey)
• New business, new Japan. (Japan's relations with Western countries) (editorial)
• 1: the last reel turns. (Chinese motion picture industry) (Books and Arts; Three Chinese Laments)
• Whooooooosh. (Moller International's new four-person verticle-take-off-and-landing aircraft)
• Dow draws its matrix again - and again, and again.... (Dow Chemical and matrix management) (company profile)
• Crisis in computer capitalism. (computer sales in Russia)
• Unpalatable truths. (Afghanistan)
• A tall tale. (the Sears Tower)
• Herr Hare; don't be fooled by West Germany's surprisingly rapid economic growth. (editorial)
• The batmogul and The Abyss. (money-making movies
• Great bores of tomorrow. (Eurotunnel) (Finance)
• United we fly. (British Airways) (Business)
• Dog days for the chancellor. (economic conditions in Great Britain) (Britain)
• Seven-year itch. (Senegambia) (International)
• Do or die. (India and Sri Lanka) (Asia)
• Life-stretching drug. (AZT use in treatment of AIDS) (American Survey)
• A salon for Virgil. (Herculaneum)
• Lifting a barrier or two. (mergers in Japan)
• What price freedom? (investment decisions)
• Believing in yesterday. (Liverpool)
• Niech zyje wiosna: long live spring. (A Survey of Eastern Europe)
  by Beedham, Brian

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