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Having tentatively stabilized TWA's finances, Icahn is bidding against industry giants Delta and United for choice Pan Am routes to Europe. He may have help from American, which does not want its large rivals to capture those assets. TWA could finance the deal by selling some of the routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Struggling to Stay Aloft | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Ironically, this may turn out to be good news. By demanding that the Balts fork over what amounts to reparations for living under Soviet occupation for 51 years, Moscow seems to have conceded the principle of freedom and opened the bidding on its price. "We are ready to start negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

But Lacayo presides over an insiders' network that mocks Chamorro's vows to run a "transparent" administration. Last November the government ordered 400,000 new passports, claiming that the old documents were no longer any good because the Sandinistas, in their final months of power, had issued papers to non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Keeping It All in the Family | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

For more than two decades the eight universities that make up the Ivy League, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have got together and matched one another's financial-aid offers to students. It was an attempt, they say, to avoid bidding wars for the most desirable prospects. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION Cracking the Ivy Cartel | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Investments ranging from art to real estate are suffering from depression nowadays, but the bidding for elk horn is still going strong. Boy Scouts in Jackson, Wyo., who each year auction off the antlers shed by bull elk at the nearby National Elk Refuge, earlier this month collected a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns for The Highest Bidders | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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