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Other Republicans, though, are scrambling to get aboard the environmental bandwagon. Florida Governor Bob Martinez, expecting a difficult re-election campaign next fall, last month unveiled a ten-year, $3.2 billion initiative to acquire land for environmental and recreational purposes; he also endorsed a plan to undo the work of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Greenin' | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Like abortion, environmentalism cuts across party lines. A national recycling bill is winding its way through Congress. California and Connecticut have recently passed laws requiring the use of recycled newsprint, and similar legislation has been proposed in at least a dozen other states. In New York the environment may be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Greenin' | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

The new hot-job category for many students is "turnaround consulting," which develops the skills to rescue troubled companies -- including overleveraged firms that have been through the takeover wars. The new heroes are turnaround specialists like Sanford Sigoloff. Long known as Ming the Merciless for his fierce cost cutting, Sigoloff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Nine years afterward, the same sort of naifs were asking themselves a question: If you could purchase a $1,000 car for $100 down, why couldn't you acquire stock the same way? In 1929 that kind of instant gratification was called buying on margin. As the market crashed, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Pigs Always Get Slaughtered | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

9 a.m. Tanks have roared through the streets all night, and the army has pushed its perimeter half a block from our hotel. The Tadzhiks are really furious and glance with undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union 48 Hours of Chaos | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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