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...CARLO MARIA MARTINI, 66, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Guessing Game | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Minuses: Lacks Martini's high profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Guessing Game | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...deductibility debate will not be decided by facts and revenues, for at its core are the more peppery issues of politics and fairness that have long made the "three-martini lunch" a hot topic. "A businessman often needs a congenial atmosphere away from the office in which to make his or her pitch," points out Jerry Berns, the 86-year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Up a Political Storm | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...taxes rise, and for a typical family, the energy tax would range from $10 to $17 a month. Class resentment had been simmering long enough to ensure that there would be few voices in Congress willing to come to the defense of millionaires, deductible golf-club memberships and three-martini lunches. Any particular spending cut, on the other hand, was guaranteed to add another obstacle in Congress. "As a political matter," said a Clinton aide, "it's easier to put the burden of deficit reduction on rich people generally, rather than taking on all the special interests at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Working the Crowd | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...everyone accepts Martini's assessment -- or at least the accreditation council's action. "We can't correct all of the problems in the distribution of health care by putting a quota on medical education," says Dr. J. Lee Dockery, executive vice president of the American Board of Medical Specialties. A better way to boost the number of primary-care physicians, he argues, is to provide them with more incentives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Health Care Too Specialized? | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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