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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To some critics, the auction houses' success is excessive. While no one blames them for dizzy prices-they are not their bidders' keepers-even dealers who are making wild profits as a result of the art boom evince a certain distaste for the whole process. London's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Soon afterward, a three-member commission from Tehran, headed by Economic and Finance Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr, arrived in Tabriz to negotiate a truce with Sharietmadari's supporters. But the emissaries were immediately discredited by Banisadr, who announced insultingly that he would deal only with individual Azerbaijanis, not with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Ayatullah Is Angry | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

He has successfully undergone two lie-detector tests and ten days of twelve-hour interrogations by Government agents, and his story remains unshaken. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the IRS are pur suing investigations. An Amoco spokesman acknowledges that the SEC has subpoenaed four high-ranking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The DOE's Office of Special Counsel for Compliance, which has more than 400 auditors and 200 lawyers, was set up nearly two years ago to uncover profiteering. Because past efforts nailed few alleged offenders, the DOE turned for advice to a sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Getting Getty | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Since there were no takers for the school board's $124.6 million in notes, Hannon asked Mayor Byrne to provide a city guarantee for the school board's financing. The mayor, concerned about the city's own credit rating, stalled and appointed a task force of bankers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Case of the Missing Millions | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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