Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upgrade Lun Feng for state-of-the-art stuffed-toy manufacture, which really means little more than loading an empty building with sewing machines, Lun Feng's Hong Kong joint-venture partner lent the factory's nominal owner, the town of Kai Kong, more than $1 million. (The national government got its cut by charging a fee for converting the Hong Kong dollars into Chinese currency.) Since then, Lun Feng has been on its own. Much of the fabric used by the factory comes from Taiwan. "No problem," says Lun Feng's operations manager, who happens to belong...
They didn't make Phi Beta Kappa, but five Soviet managers got a degree in hamburgerology last week. After six months of management training in the art of flipping burgers and slinging fries, the Soviet businessmen graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University in suburban Chicago. Their training is a prelude to a planned Big Mac Attack on Moscow sometime next year, when McDonald's hopes to open its first Soviet restaurant, in Pushkin Square...
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MASTERWORKS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington. Some 65 of the renowned glassmaker's most vibrant lamps, vases and windows. The ultimate glass act! Sept. 29-March...
PICASSO AND BRAQUE: PIONEERING CUBISM, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The title tells all: two giants, and the origins of a style that shook -- and shaped -- the rest of the century. Through...