Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced, there will be a new New York column. Pasteurized and homogenized like the front page, this column is sure to represent the ideals and aspirations of the Times' upscale readers. Maybe issues that the Times editorial page has championed, such as the restoration of a pre-revolutionary war mansion, will take precedence over such mundane problems as corruption in the building industry...
...Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes. He allegedly used the remaining $1.4 million for personal expenses and repayment of a loan. All the while, DeLorean and his then wife Model Cristina Ferrare enjoyed a lavish life-style, which included a 25-room mansion in Bedminster, N.J., a 48-acre ranch in San Diego County and a 20-room apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking New York City's Central Park...
...thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk with Kaunda in his study at the State House, the elegant mansion that once housed the governors of Northern Rhodesia. During the interview Kaunda applauded the growing opposition to apartheid in the U.S. and made an impassioned plea for international action to save South Africa from what he believes will be a bloody revolution. Excerpts...
...much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss. Rockport, a thriving maker of walking shoes (estimated 1985 sales: $68 million), has been growing so fast that Katz feared he was falling out of touch with employees. Says Katz: "We're trying to be a democratic company, one where...
...Corporation members oversee University investments, conduct fund drives such as the successfully concluded $350 million capital campaign, manage the budget for twelve different faculties, and fight against national programs or policies bound to affect education adversely. You may occasionally see them emanating from the former President's Mansion near Lamont Library, but other than that, they'll be invisible until Commencement celebrations...