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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cash starved and struggling, Britain's Jaguar PLC has decided to take the course favored by many an aristocrat facing hard times: marrying into money. Last week, three days after Japanese investors bought a majority interest in Rockefeller Center, the 67-year-old maker of sleek, purring luxury sports cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford's Sporty New Number | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Assembling this critical gallimaufry is the task of reporter-researcher Andrea Sachs. An attorney turned journalist who joined TIME in 1984, Sachs says her legal training "helps me to negotiate the little problems that come up." The hardest: squeezing opinions to fit into the highly compressed space. Not surprisingly, Sachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 13 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

He began by taking on Premier Li Peng, whom he had pointedly not asked to meet. In a private session, Nixon reportedly deleted no vitriolics in expressing American outrage over the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators last June. To end the current impasse, he suggested, the two nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Words To Hard-Liners | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

The U.S. decision to grant Fang and his wife refuge has become the primary source of tension between the two countries. Just before Halloween the Chinese mounted a show of force around the embassy, evidently fearing that masked party guests were going to smuggle Fang out in a coffin. Diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Words To Hard-Liners | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Lovelock and Margulis have modified the theory over the years to address scientists' criticism that Gaia implied that the earth acted with a sense of purpose. In its newest form, Gaia has inspired a flood of research into the interaction between living systems and the atmosphere, earth and oceans. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: How The Earth Maintains Life | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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