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...after gyrating wildly, the market settled down in the afternoon. Even the losses in the broader market were modest. Monday's 88.12 point gain was the fourth largest one-day point rise ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feared Market Crash Turns Into Big Rally | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...aggressive leadership of chairman Robert Crandall, corporate revenues have more than doubled in the past six years, to $8.8 billion. Most impressive, the airliner built its modern fleet of 683 aircraft with relatively little borrowing. Against $2.6 billion in assets at the end of last year, AMR held a modest $1.2 billion in long-term debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Donald, Duck! | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...astonishing how many ways the Middle East's antagonists can find to thwart peace. Lately, the preferred method has been to dither. Now Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped in with a proposal to goose the main parties into conversation, only to find even those modest efforts mired in debate. After an inconclusive round robin of talks in Cairo, Washington and New York, Mubarak went home warning -- not for the first time -- that a "golden opportunity" was about to be missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Waiting for Godot | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Editor and publisher Ed Sidey, my brother, will drape a wisp of bunting over the new sign, print a modest centennial edition and later hold a small open house with coffee and cookies and a lot of laughter. Then he and his crew of nine will begin the work of the second century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tapestry of Prairie Life | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...modest fee, a prospective college student can contact our headquarters (which will be my room, although we will not in any way be affiliated with the University, Really.) and obtain the real dirt on the colleges they're applying to. Then everything will be fair. Colleges can decide how much to charge students. and students can decide whether or not the colleges are worth...

Author: By Beckie Sherman, | Title: Son of Student Aid Services | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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