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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khashoggi's flamboyant life-style, besides gratifying his own inclinations, is a calculated element in his way of doing business. "Flowers and light attract nightingales and butterflies," he says, a metaphor he prefers to the more homespun "catching flies with honey." As a schoolboy in Egypt, he would earn $100...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

There are perhaps 1,000 art buyers in Los Angeles. Their passions invite, and to some extent deserve, a degree of skepticism. The visitor who wends his way from house to house, seeing the same work by the same fashionable names, trophies of an insecure herd instinct that relies too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Getting On the Map | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

In an interview with TIME, Gray suggested that one way of raising revenue might be to impose a "temporary" surcharge on foreign imports that would last no more than three years. Gray estimated that higher fees on imports could raise anywhere from $10 billion to $30 billion annually, depending on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pie in The Sky | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Still unanswered were questions about Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reasons for freeing the couple. When Gorbachev phoned the Sakharovs in Gorky on Dec. 16 to invite them to return to Moscow, he offered few clues. "Gorbachev is a shrewd man, and we may not know yet how shrewd he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Picking Up Where He Left Off | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Harvard will invite a record number of early admission candidates to spend four years here, as acceptance letters go out today to 691 of the 2001 applicants to the Class of 1991.

Author: By A. NEWBERRY Ripich, | Title: Early Action Program Admits 691 to College | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

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