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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: A Really Hot Stock Tip | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Chehabi, an expert in international relations,said that the peacekeeping forces are "doing agood job" and that he "couldn't think of anybetter candidates," except perhaps Perez deCuellar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peacekeepers Win Nobel; Move Wins Profs Praise | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...movie. The movie never deals intelligently with the guilt and political doubts of the Popes. Lumet trots out a bad guy revolutionary from their past to show that the Popes are nice guys, but aside from that brief scene, it doesn't really matter why they are underground except that it provides the movie with its premise...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...help in sending her son to Juilliard, which is a kind of bourgeois shrine. The scene could have been plausible if we had seen Annie struggle with these inconsistencies. Instead, her actions prove that the Popes are in no way different from any other middle-class family except that they occasionally make "socially aware" comments and are not uptight about...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

Harvard dominated play in the first period, keeping Lowell from clearing the ball out of its half of the field except on four or five occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Conquer Lowell, Field, 3-0 | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

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