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...percentage point or two in assumptions about unemployment, the cost of living or gross national product can mean projected billions in Government income or deficit That, in turn, means more billions of change forecast in the private money markets, which shudder instantly to new speculation from Washington Ail error of one percentage point in unemployment estimates can add up to a $25 lion error in the budget sums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Master of an Arcane Crisis | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Hughes. With that same cheery, golden bantam innocence, Dummar has now launched a Nevada nightclub act. Booked into a two-week stand at the Sahara in Reno, he has included two bittersweet Dummar compositions in his act, The Ail-American Dreamer and Thank You Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 5, 1981 | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Leonard Katzman promises more ex plosions in the unfolding season. J.R.'s ail-American brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) will take over the family business and "be less pure as he becomes more powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now It Can Be Told: Shedunit | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...remained intensely private. Associates regarded him as brilliant-but austere, humorless and egotistical. "Medicine was his life," said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...certainly seemed so. "They live in that?" he questioned incredulously, as he squatted in front of a hut built from cow dung in northern Kenya. "Are they happy?" he asked, studying a group of Rendille tribesmen resting under a tree. He then wanted to know, "What do they do ail day long?" Told that they tended cattle, he persisted: "Yes. But what do they do while they're tending cattle?" And later he wondered whether "these local people have a pagan religion." To such questions posed by California Governor Jerry Brown, his African hosts could only smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making the African Scene | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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