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As diplomats negotiate, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives are peddling their planes more aggressively than in the past. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-plane division: "We used to sell 727s like you sell Mercedes. This one's nice and there's the price on the window, take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble on The Horizon | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

In California, some 2,000 motor vehicles -- from Michael Jackson's Mercedes- Benz to Palo Alto garbage trucks -- have been equipped with a gadget called the Navigator, which helps drivers get to a destination by displaying their vehicle's location on a glowing green map. And beginning next month, visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Driving by the Glow of a Screen | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

John Gotti likes to dress and drive for success, preferring $1,800 double- breasted suits and a black Mercedes 450 SL, all in keeping with his reputation as the "Dapper Don" of the underworld. Last week he had reason to top the spiffy threads with a bright, back-in-business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dapper Don Beats a Rap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

It costs Khashoggi an estimated $250,000 a day to support his life-style. His twelve estates around the world include a 180,000-acre ranch in Kenya and a $30 million apartment that takes up two entire floors of a luxury building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He has...

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

Against this landscape of unremitting horror, one bright spot marked the holiday season. As darkness fell on another grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Long Shadow of Tehran | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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