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Sally: And the ladies' powder room. A lascivious red. Yum. Condom purchases low here, too. But you can check your lipstick in the mirror over the sinks and subtly inspect your butt for those unseemly panty lines in the vertical mirror behind you with just a discreet toss of the head. How convenient!Middle...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Metropolis' Middle-Age Mix | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...nine months after I shipped it to get the merchandise into the customer's store. The Japanese found problems at the pier, they couldn't find the merchandise -- whatever they could do to keep us from getting our product into the store, they did. They had all kinds of inspections that we did conform to, but then they make you wait a month before they inspect the product." Says Clyde Prestowitz: "Not every Japanese economic success is due to its business virtuosity. There is also collusion, dumping and predatory pricing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Federal mine inspector Jack (Black Jack) Massey says his payoffs began when he found a crisp $100 bill under his jacket in the backseat of his car after inspecting one of Nelson's mines. During the next several years, Massey says, Nelson gave him more than $8,000 in cash as well as knives, hams, turkeys and | season tickets to University of West Virginia football games. Massey's job was to inspect for electrical hazards, but instead of citing the mine for violations, he repaired problems and was paid by the mining company for the work. In February 1990 federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Boris Yeltsin insisted that he was only going to the Arctic region of Murmansk on a "business trip" last week, but he certainly looked and acted like a man running for office. The Russian populist donned a white coat to inspect a high-tech laboratory, reviewed black-uniformed columns of sailors and promised the crew of the nuclear missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...coordinator of United Nations humanitarian operations in Iraq, Bernt Bernander should be able to expect a reasonably smooth passage through the streets of his host country. Recently, though, as Bernander drove north of Sulaymaniyah to inspect the treatment of Kurdish refugees there, gunmen ambushed the five-car convoy. They hit three cars with gunfire, but the occupants miraculously suffered only a few glass splinters. The assailants, it turned out, were Kurdish guerrillas who had mistaken the U.N. delegates for Iraqi government officials. After appropriating one of the vehicles, the guerrillas apologized for shooting and sent the envoys on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Walking the Beat in Iraq | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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