Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANGELES, Aug. 23--The way a man vacations says a lot about him. Recent presidential vacations have been particularly revealing...
TIME had first applied for the interview last March. Still, it came as a surprise on Saturday morning, Aug. 24, when Grunwald received an urgent phone call from a Soviet diplomat. The question: Could he, Cave and Duncan be in Moscow by Monday for an interview with Gorbachev? Visas? No problem. Everything would be taken care of. Indeed it was. Soviet officials smoothly whisked the TIME group through Moscow airport's tight security...
...automakers are jostling one another like the last four cars in a demolition derby. The bumping and grinding began Aug. 15, when General Motors offered customers the rockbottom financing rate of 7.7%. The dramatic GM ploy surprised Ford, Chrysler and American Motors, which last week slashed their financing rates. Ford matched GM's 7.7%, and Chrysler and AMC went even lower, to 7.5%. Compared with conventional car loans, which carry rates as high as 13%, the automakers' deals strike customers as a steal. At Village Ford in Dearborn, Mich., showroom traffic increased 50% last week. "When they come...
...Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford, Conn. In the case of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23, killing all 329 aboard, a bomb is suspected of having caused the 747 to disintegrate in midair. The JAL crash on Aug. 12, which claimed 520 lives, is still under investigation, but speculation continues that the rear pressure bulkhead cracked in flight...
...last month when Lebanese Muslim leaders, meeting in Damascus, drew up a 16-point plan that would increase their political power. Lebanese Christian politicians predictably denounced the Damascus accord, and new bickering broke out between them and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri. On Aug. 14 a car bomb exploded in a northern Christian enclave. Three days later an even bigger explosive device killed 55 in a suburb of predominantly Christian East Beirut. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon blamed the Muslims and promised, "Our revenge will be as powerful as their crimes...