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...necessarily on a starlet's income. An E.F. Hutton executive was quoted as saying that she now has just eleven accounts and that her income at the brokerage last year did not reach the minimum wage. As for the brokerage house's opinion of Verola's asset disclosure, everybody is listening but so far Hutton is not talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naked Option | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...into the Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail). In addition to his experience in capital ways, Lewis' value lies in his background as a corporate troubleshooter. Says Anthony Hoffman, a vice president of the New York City brokerage firm A.G. Becker: "His political reputation and skills will be an added asset when it comes to the hunt for new cable franchises, but what is really being relied on here is his business ability in what constitutes a turnaround situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signing Off | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...much at stake in the outcome of that search. Not only do the Caribbean islands (total pop. about 26.5 million) extend across vital American shipping lanes, but most of the tiny nations, ranging in population from Barbados' 79,000 to Cuba's 10.3 million, have another special asset that is rare in the developing world. Despite a cruel history of imported slavery, colonialism and harsh exploitation, the fledgling states remain among the most democratically governed in the world. The major exceptions: Cuba, Grenada and Haiti. Most of the other governments are aware of, if not always responsive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean: Troubles in a Pauper's Paradise | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan; if he can't communicate his positions, we are in real trouble. And if he doesn't believe in it, he can't communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reagan Decides | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

Jonathan A Epstein '83 calls the peer relationship he has built up with the section of Math At he teaches, "at once the biggest problem and the biggest asset it's hard to pretend that you're the one in charge...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Who's in Charge Here? | 12/10/1982 | See Source »

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