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...seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands of the movie-mad and the just plain curious will crowd into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

This idea is the key to accepting Posner's definition of justice--a belief that the market economy is the best producer and distributor of wealth. The author buttresses this assertion with compelling, but confusing evidence; his textbook-style charts and statistical comparisons enhance the appeal of the reasoning he presents in clear hypothetical cases...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen iii, | Title: An Ethical Theory for the Marketplace | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...trying to finance his recreational use. The business seemed so easy that it just grew. Throughout their perilous escapades, Stein berg and friends remained calm, peaceful, fun-loving, devil-may-care. They never used force. If an aide was kidnaped, they paid the ransom. If a distributor burned them on a payoff, they simply did not deal with him again. Their mothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends were recruited to rent safe houses in Miami suburbs for storing drugs or to ride along as evidence of propriety when they were transporting a shipment. Says Steinberg: "I never saw a gun the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the Drug Trade | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Total sales of the People parody are expected to exceed 750,000 copies before the sale of the magazine ends on December 15, David O. Cox, an account executive at Select Magazines, the parody's national distributor, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'People' Parody Sells Big; Lampoon Makes Bundle | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

Some of the investments in Shenzhen turned out to be near disasters, and several Hong Kong investors left in frustration. The Ford and Mitsubishi distributor in Hong Kong and the Chinese set up a joint venture to assemble trucks and buses in Shenzhen. But the plant has become a heavy money loser, operating at only a fraction of potential output because of haphazard management and the lack of skilled workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bold Experiment | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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