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...Yorker came up with another kind of answer, or perhaps just an epitaph. It was a bedraggled parrot that a policeman found in Manhattan in November of 1929. "More margin!" the bird squawked, in echo of some desperate stockbroker's greedy injunction to the bird's vanished master in that already vanished era. "More margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Once Upon A Time in October . . . | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman who knows no more of haut-monde Manhattan then he may have seen on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High-Risk Love in an Alien World SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Directing OSHA's current policies is Assistant Labor Secretary John Pendergrass, 62, a former 3M industrial hygienist. Pendergrass argues that OSHA's emphasis on encouraging companies to upgrade their record keeping has fostered self-regulation and a new spirit of cooperation between Government and business. "Playing policeman wasn't working," Pendergrass says. "We are nonconfrontational. We can't be the safety director at every plant." Since 1980, he asserts, 1.5 million safety hazards have been eradicated in America's 7 million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat And Fears | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...patriarch of an extended family of 2,000 members in Mexico, Jaime Herrera Nevarez, 60, was known as the "Drug Lord of Durango." The former policeman directed a heroin-smuggling pipeline into the U.S. Midwest that generated an estimated $200 million annually. Herrera was so sure he was untouchable that he regularly appeared at weddings and christenings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Capturing a Kingpin | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...grandson of a miner and the son of a policeman, Ramaphosa grew up in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. He says his greatest regret is that he never worked in a mine. Instead, he entered law school in 1972, though he did not graduate until nine years later. In the meantime, Ramaphosa was busy helping to lead the Black Consciousness movement, whose charismatic young founder, Steve Biko, died in 1977 of injuries sustained while in police custody. Ramaphosa headed the university section of the South African Students Organization, a radical umbrella group that gave rise to several militant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Striking Figure | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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