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...paid $39.9 million for Sunflowers? Less than two weeks after an anonymous telephone bidder set an art-world record at Christie's London auction house by buying the faded Van Gogh masterpiece, the mysterious party has come forward: Tokyo-based Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance. Japan's second largest insurance company bought the work, which was completed in January 1889, to help celebrate its centenary next year...
...wife Raisa. Similarly warm groups met them as they dashed through a hectic schedule -- talks with officials, visits to the opera and a Soviet war memorial, and campaign-like walkabouts featuring handshaking, chatting and baby kissing. After two days in Prague, Gorbachev went on to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia's second largest city and the capital of Slovakia...
Academic salaries are the largest budget item, generally accounting for around 60% of total expenses. During the '70s, professors' salaries grew at an overall rate of 73%, lagging far behind inflation at 112%. Universities have been playing catch-up in the '80s. This year's raises average 5.9%, which is 4% above inflation and the largest since 1972. Yet the typical tenured professor's salary of $43,500 still represents 10% less buying power than the equivalent salary...
Ronald Reagan radiated more than his customary high wattage of optimism last week in Ottawa as he addressed Canada's 386-member Parliament. His topic: the possibility of a Canada-U.S. agreement that may soon create the world's largest free-trade zone. Amid fierce applause, the President promised to throw the full weight of his office behind that much discussed but never quite accomplished prospect. Said Reagan: "To those who would . . . fight a destructive and self-defeating round of trade battles, Canada and the U.S. will show the positive...
...they might. As the President attested during his summit meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the U.S. and its largest trading partner appear close to a historic juncture in their immense economic relationship (value of 1986 commerce: $129 billion). After a year of negotiation, officials in Washington and Ottawa seem confident they can produce a draft agreement by autumn that will completely eliminate tariff barriers between the two countries over the next decade or so. Reagan also took a modest -- for most Canadians, far too modest -- step toward alleviating another deep Canadian concern. The President said he would "consider...