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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like Jim Lebenthal and Charles Schwab, Randy Smith owns a successful securities firm. But unlike those two familiar financial pitchmen, the head of Manhattan's R.D. Smith & Co. would never think of hawking his services on TV. Reason: R.D. Smith deals in stocks and bonds that would seem far too risky to the typical investor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom in The Bust Market: Taking stock in bankruptcy | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Midafternoon intermission: A general rush to the pay phones, of which there are 40 in the two-story center. On the line to Kankakee: "It was my understanding that Carol told Joe they mailed it out on Friday. Well, I'm going to call Jim to find out what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Hahn, 28, first came to public notice as the former church secretary from Long Island, N.Y., who toppled Televangelist Jim Bakker from the pulpit of his lucrative PTL ministry by admitting an irregular sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: On The Springboard of Notoriety | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...speech came as House Speaker Jim Wright warned that no proposal for military aid is likely to get congressional approval as long as the peace process continues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Makes Pitch for More Contra Aid | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...slim volume of anecdotes and fragments of speeches that has sold a modest but respectable 17,000 copies. That would mean $10,000 to most writers. But Reflections of a Public Man ($5.95) has earned its author, House Speaker Jim Wright, a princely $54,642, which is about five times the publishing industry's standard royalty. The munificent publisher is Carlos Moore, a printer in Wright's Fort Worth congressional district and one of his early supporters. As it turns out, Moore was paid $265,000 for work done during Wright's re-election campaign last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheeler-Dealers: The Wright Stuff | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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