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Many of those ideas are too bizarre to meet strict operating standards imposed on the Texas system in 1980 by Federal Judge William Wayne Justice. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs keep trying. Hard times in the oil patch have spurred hucksters to offer up abandoned office buildings, foreclosed motels and warehouses to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: More Rooms for The Big House | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

IKEA is run by missionaries who were charged up by Ingvar Kamprad, 61, a Swede who started the company when he was only 17. He synthesized the name IKEA from his initials and those of Elmtaryd, his family's farm, and Agunnaryd, the community where he grew up and where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Store That Runs on a Wrench | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

One of these customers is Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a free-spirited New York script reader forever on the lookout for classic volumes of poetry and prose at affordable prices. One day she comes across an advertisement for Marks and Co. in the Saturday Review, and pens the first letter...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Playing by the Book | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

A black boot came through the door, then another, followed by the unmistakable odor of grease and grenadine. The black tweed jacket, the streak of slick-backed hair, the 10-pack of black, Bic ball-point pens. "Who is this kid?"

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Rocker Dead in Writing Class | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

When it comes to disarmament negotiations, the devil is truly in the details. While the arms talks showed such progress last week that Yuli Vorontsov, the chief Soviet negotiator, predicted that an agreement could be reached by summer, it is still to be seen whether the momentum can be sustained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament Let's Make a Deal | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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