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Both have been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and hiding their fortunes abroad while reducing their poverty-stricken peoples to even worse states of poverty. Both created secret police forces to do their bidding, and both suppressed opponents without mercy. Both seemed to acquire the final illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Tyrants Fall | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Prince of the Panhandle. T. Boone Pickens has few regrets about his raiding career. "Our motives were sincere," says the Amarillo, Texas, oilman. "We believed we could run those companies better than they were being run." Pickens, 61, never managed to acquire such energy giants as Gulf Oil, Phillips Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raiders on The Run: The Big Comeuppance | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

In his book, The Burden of the Past, Porter University Professor Emeritus W.J. Bate '39 writes: "In this dilemma, the arts mirror the greatest single cultural problem we face, assuming that we physically survive: that is, how to use the heritage, when we know and admire so much about it...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

A high school dropout who emigrated from England as a boy, Bond had come up the hard way, fueled by an insatiable drive to acquire, combine, take over. At 49 he was one of the richest men in Australia. He controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

The acquisition comes amid a surge of Japanese investment fueled largely by Tokyo's $52 billion trade surplus with the U.S. In September Sony agreed to acquire Columbia Pictures Entertainment for $3.4 billion. And just three days after the Rockefeller Center sale, a consortium led by Japan's Mori Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sure, We'll Take Manhattan | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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