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...Money" that offers suggestions on how to shop for and reduce the costs of an abortion. Glossaries help to explain insurance, stock market and real estate terms that Porter calls "bafflegab." Her style is brisk and hortatory. Porter warns her readers: "If you need a spring rain coat, don't stop off at the section reserved for bathing suits and buy a bikini at top price. I've done this sort of thing plenty of times, and I bet you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Normally, Justin would sit and stare at his panoramic view of Edmonton, boomtown, the Houston of the North. Lately, however, he had become restless. He yearned for new vigor. The coat of snow over Edmonton made him listless...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...doing much to change, from an office chocked with multicolored hard hats (''The boys working on Canal Place gave me the blue one''); a huge book of Persian art from the Shah; scrawled notes of affection from his two daughters; and his Sicilian family coat of arms. That Canizaro could become the most talked-about young businessman between Texas and Florida in a fairly short time gives some clues to the condition of opportunity in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Outsider Makes it Big | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...heavy frost when prime-time television commitments are at stake, proved that he was equally up to the challenge in a mid-autumn monsoon. Rain fell before or during each of the first three games, and temperatures were in the numbing 30s and low 40s, but Kuhn came sans coat and umbrella one night. He saw to it that players kept up appearances as well, forbidding the wearing of woolen ski caps during batting practice and on the bench. "I don't know about him," one Pirate grumbled, "but my ears are cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pops Go the Pirates | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...College day began at sunrise with morning prayers and a breakfast of bread and beer. Students were never permitted to leave their rooms without their coat, gown or cloak, and the administration looked askance at students with long hair, curled hair, and even parted hair

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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