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...fact, when it comes to promoting TIME, few of us can match Cleary's zeal. "It might sound corny, but working for TIME was always on my wish list," she says. Nevertheless, she began her career in a roundabout way. A Phi Beta Kappa at Connecticut College, she graduated in 1975 and spent a year in Japan as a Fulbright fellow, then worked at the Bank of Toyko as a liaison and operations manager. In 1978 she got her wish, when she was hired as an assistant marketing manager, preparing material for sales presentations, at TIME in New York City...
...subject to farfetched conditions; one demanded reparations for allied bombing. But though Bush promptly denounced the proposal as a "cruel hoax," Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed himself encouraged enough to invite Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow for new talks. Aziz arrived on Sunday, Feb. 17, by a roundabout route that underscored the total air supremacy the allies have achieved over Iraq. He was driven across the Iranian border, then helicoptered to Tehran, and flew from there to the Soviet capital. If he had flown directly from Baghdad, his plane might have been shot down...
...Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from 500 three years ago to nearly 4,000; they include many children...
...investment house's clients. The SEC says Vaskevitch illegally passed such tips to Sofer, who then arranged to buy the takeover stocks through two Wall Street brokerage firms, MKI Securities and Russo Securities, neither of which has been charged with wrongdoing. The profits from the trades returned in a roundabout way to Vaskevitch and Sofer through two intermediate companies, situated in England and Liechtenstein, in which Sofer held an interest, the SEC claims...
...began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned up in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, and middlemen, known as the suitcase brigade, secretly ferried them...