Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again this summer, TIME's nine-week intern program, now in its eleventh year, is giving senior-bound college students a chance to get hands-on experience at a major news organization, and a rare glimpse of how TIME is put together. "It's fun knowing what will get into the magazine before anyone else does," says Intern Ruth Masters, 20, a European-history major at the University of Pennsylvania, who is researching and writing in the Economy & Business section...
...rare collaboration of committees from the House and Senate will continue the rest of the month. First, they will hear testimony from three CIA officials behind closed doors, then they will draft a report on the affair...
...production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according to Cameron Mackintosh, who produced them all. If it thrives, he envisions raising $8 million to "help bring Follies back to Broadway, which created the traditions it celebrates" -- a rare reverse transfer that would be welcome and yet, for Americans, a little humbling...
...rectitude that Falwell is administering at PTL has spilled over into his own Lynchburg ministry. Last month the organization published a rare 16-page report that included a succinct two-page financial summary. For the year ending June 1986, the document noted, ministry revenues totaled $84.1 million and expenses ran to $82.9 million. Total assets were valued at $91.5 million, while liabilities totted up to $56.5 million. However, Falwell would provide TIME with no audited, detailed financial statements for the ministry...
International art collectors may be surprised at a Christie's catalog this fall. Instead of rare Renoirs, Turners and Manets, they will behold photos and descriptions of shopping malls, office buildings and hotels worth at least $5 million apiece. In November the London-based art auction house plans to team up for the first time with Cushman & Wakefield, a giant Manhattan realty firm, to put some $100 million worth of prime U.S. commercial real estate on Christie's Park Avenue auction block...