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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenure as president of the European Commission, a job he has held for the past 2½ years. During his stewardship in the European Community's top administrative post, a recent audit has revealed, many of the E.C.'s 13 commissioners went on an expense account binge that was anything but controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Luxury-Loving Eurocrats | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...Haferkamp, in fact, whose expense account artistry had provoked the European Parliament into ordering the audit earlier this year. Members of Parliament had been dismayed by reports that he had given a $14,000 cocktail party in Caracas and run up a $2,000 bill for three nights spent in New York City's Pierre hotel. Last year, he took a woman friend on a trip to Peking as an official interpreter at E.C. expense and over Budget Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat's objections. Though the woman was multilingual, she happened to speak not a word of Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Luxury-Loving Eurocrats | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...French multinational corporation and she as an economist for a U.S. think tank. She also gets $9,000 annually from an inheritance, but they show few signs of opulence. They live in a two-bedroom walkup, drive a small car and holiday with parents. Lacking the kind of expense account that allows many Frenchmen the Gallic equivalent of a three-martini lunch, they do not make a habit of eating out. Says Xavier: "I would guess that 60% of the customers in Paris restaurants are not paying from their own pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How They Live So Well in Europe | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...Rosenthal wants to see capital grow throughout the economy by radically changing the source of much that is wrong in the U.S.: its tax system. In his view, the system fosters too many tax shelters, expense-account freeloaders and assorted cheaters. It penalizes achievement because it taxes salaries at rates up to 50% and capital (in the form of dividends and interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Why Tax Success? | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Dardis' telling of this poignant tale is serviceable. He knows the early days of Hollywood; his previous book Some Time in the Sun was a good account of how writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West functioned at the dream factory. Yet too many sentences creep along under the crustacean weight of adjectives: "The staggering impact of the immense success of these shows on the entire entertainment world . . ." Worse, Dardis too often strains after bogus significance: "Like Ernest Hemingway, who also spent childhood summers on a lake in Michigan, Buster early became an extremely proficient duck hunter." Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Knocks | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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