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...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Denver: The Beloved Uncool | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...seen no significant pay or benefit increases during that time, weren't so enamored. In fact, "they were ready to throw the bum out," says a former Carey aide. The challenger, James P. Hoffa, son of the notorious former Teamsters leader, was coming on strong with a multimillion-dollar war chest. To save their man, Carey aides began a desperate scramble for money. The schemes they hatched would make a mockery of the $22 million that the Federal Government had spent to clean up the union and ensure that the race would be the fairest in Teamster history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF CASH AND CAREY | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: THE POWER OF MONEY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...hedge managers get paid on two very lucrative tiers. They collect 1% to 2% of their funds' assets as a management fee and, the real jackpot, anywhere from 10% to 30% of their trading profits. At larger funds, where those profits can run into hundreds of millions, that means multimillion-dollar paychecks for fund managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEDGE FUNDS--OR, HOW THE RICH GET RICHER | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

Templesman, a diamond dealer with long experience in Africa, was seeking loans from the Export-Import Bank and loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOBBYING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

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