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Henry graduated to editor-in-chief of Time Inc. in 1979, supervising the editorial content of all our publications, including FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and MONEY. And after that? He was not the type to languish in retirement. In 1988 Ronald Reagan made him U.S. ambassador to Austria, allowing Henry to return in glory to the nation he had fled. His first task was to communicate Washington's displeasure with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi collaborator during...
...TIME's panel, Jeffrey Sachs, the director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former national economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now dean of the London Business School, see eerie similarities with economic conditions of almost 20 years ago. As Ronald Reagan began his second term in 1985, the dollar was sliding and the U.S. was running up big deficits as a result of tax cuts and increased military and other spending. Back then, the American economy entered a turbulent decade of budget consolidation that included a short but potent recession...
Matt Maupin, born while Ronald Reagan was president, is partial to Superman, Star Wars and teriyaki beef jerky. He grew up in a trim ranch house with a basketball hoop next to the driveway and his prized red 1998 Mustang in the garage. "You can pick out most of the guys who go into the military because they walk with a certain attitude," says Nick Ayers, who played with Maupin on their high school football team, the Trojans. "But Matt was really laid-back." That quietness was infused with a drive that pushed him onto the team, as a second...
...voice of Sakharov was heard,” Sharansky said, pointing to former President Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech and criticism of Soviet human rights abuses...
...smuggling ring he is trying to expose. In an early scene, smugglers are shown flying aliens into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang-raped on slave ship of illegal immigrants. When four guys fight in a dispute over her honor, she stands by, paralyzed. Scriptwriters...