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...Slim and the Kansas City Line took a bath last week, each losing two of three in embarrassing fashion. But in week 8, it's the whole shebang--a pick for all 12 games. And we'll be keeping score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strictly-for-Entertainment Football Guide | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district. The unexpected death, in early 1996, of Mr. Chuck, the refugee from China who co-founded and owns the other half of Imperial Stitching, leaves the whole shebang to the Mullards, mother and son. Their pleasure in assuming full control is dampened somewhat by the prospect of the upcoming change in Hong Kong, which worried folks around town call "the Chinese take-away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HANDING OVER HONG KONG | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in Hong Kong?s Kowloon Tong district. The unexpected death, in early 1996, of Mr. Chuck, the refugee from China who co-founded and owns the other half of Imperial Stitching, leaves the whole shebang to the Mullards, mother and son. Their pleasure in assuming full control is dampened somewhat by the prospect of the upcoming change in Hong Kong, which worried folks around town call ?the Chinese take-away.? Sure enough, Bunt is soon approached by a Mr. Hung, quite evidently from the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Entertainment Guide | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...upon an idea whose time has come. At this moment of post-cold war confusion about where we're going as a civilization, with all kinds of murky religious ferment, it makes sense to do some stocktaking. Let's go back to the book that started the whole shebang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENESIS RECONSIDERED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...whole shebang spread to New York City, where banks and brokerage firms hired roomfuls of geniuses and paid them handsome salaries to develop new lines of imaginary products. The geniuses stared up at the ceilings and came down with derivatives, some of which they called ELKS (equity-linked securities), YEELDS (yield-enhanced equity-linked securities) and CHIPS (common-linked higher-income participation securities), as well as LYONS, TIGRS and CMOs. A decade ago, if you wanted to work on Wall Street, you went to business school; but now you can study genetics and end up at Merrill Lynch, where instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Derivatives: How the Big Game Began | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

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