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...looks like he is carrying an overnight bag; she wears a diamond ring on her left ring finger. They talk about names for their children. The bus driver take a sharp corner. "Better hold on tight, dear," he tells...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Enduring a Boring Trip For City's Excitement | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...faith, Drexel had exhausted its reserves. The move meant that Drexel, whose financial wizardry reshaped corporate America and ushered in an age of runaway debt and excess, will swiftly liquidate its business. The 152-year-old titan -- with 5,300 employees and $3.6 billion in assets -- will vanish almost overnight in the biggest failure in Wall Street history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist, a right-winger or a non-journalist. "What impressed me was how quickly he became a Times person," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's former executive editor. In fact, when Rosenthal began writing his own pugnacious Times column, Safire cracked, "Overnight, you've made me a centrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILLIAM SAFIRE: Prolific Purveyor Of Punditry | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...would be naive to suggest that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) could make some policy decisions that would transform overnight our attitudes toward education...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Scenes From the Class Struggle | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

After almost 70 years as a republic of the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan seemed to peel off its Soviet trappings almost overnight, turning into a foreign country under occupation by invaders. Enraged Azerbaijanis called for guerrilla warfare and swore to "fight to the last drop of blood" to drive the Soviets out. Almost a third of the republic's 380,000 Communist Party members burned their membership cards. Local government offices and police units ignored Moscow and looked to the ten-month-old Azerbaijani Popular Front for leadership. "If Gorbachev wants a second Afghanistan," shouted Ekhtibar Mamedov, the Front's representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Occupational Disease | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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