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Talks then stalled over KKR's insistence that Drexel Burnham Lambert manage the buyout's junk-bond financing. KKR contends that only Drexel has the savvy to sell the record $5 billion in high-yield bonds that is needed. But RJR Nabisco's managers are concerned that the buyout could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Republicans protesting the show made the mistake of underestimating the savvy of American viewers by thinking that voters would conflate the outlandish soap operatic hero of Favorite Son with the solidly pedestrian Quayle. Whatever one might think of Quayle as a political thinker, he's an unlikely candidate to be...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Black Sheep of the Family | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

Sugar Ray Leonard is a remnant of the old school, a showman and a gentleman. Leonard is smart and savvy. And people care about the outcome of his fights. Leonard versus Marvelous Marvin Hagler two years ago was a showdown worthy of the legacy left by the 'Thrilla fights of...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Sugar Ray and College Super Bowls | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Bradley Weidman thought he could bank on the sugarbowl remembrance of a 1930s child movie star when he named his new soft drink the Shirley T. What the 26- year-old entrepreneur from Encino, Calif., did not count on was the marketing savvy of Shirley Temple Black, 60, former Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITIGATION: Mutiny on the Lollipop | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

By the middle of A Bright Shining Lie, it is difficult to disagree with this bold assertion. Perhaps Sheehan overstates his case when he credits Vann with saving the Saigon regime from collapse, not once but twice: after the 1968 Tet offensive and again in 1972. Nevertheless, in Sheehan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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