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...complete with built-in bars and TV sets, were the newest showpiece of an enterprise that is as remarkable in China as the luxury cars. Known as China International Trust and Investment Corporation, the state-owned firm woos foreign investors with a combination of savvy, sizzle and shrewd business skill. Said CITIC Chairman Rong Yiren, as he took delivery of the first Cadillacs to be acquired by a Chinese organization since the Communists came to power in 1949: "Our foreign guests want to have comfortable limousines...
...measure of Deighton's considerable skill is that despite Samson's chronic grousing, anyone who starts Berlin Game is likely to persist through to the end of London Match. The story could have been brilliant if some ferocious editor had slashed it ruthlessly to one taut volume. Even so, the texture is wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt...
...laws that applied for those years, unearned income was taxable at the maximum rate of 70%. Baxter said the money was earned income, like a salary, which was taxable at a top rate of 50%. In 1984 he filed suit, contending that his winnings were the product of skill and hard work. Last week the U.S. district court in Nevada agreed and ordered the IRS to give a refund with interest. Said Baxter: "Jack Nicklaus gets to file his prize money as earned income...
...directness hardly attainable in oil. It is so simple looking--blue sea, white boat, a patch or two of red shirt, the red picked up again at the boat's waterline and in a jaunty lick or two of carmine reflection--that at first one does not mark the skill that went into it, the power of epigrammatic observation implicit in Homer's ability to convey the milky blue water over a Florida sand bottom in two washes of cerulean and cobalt. One knows how little time it took to see and how little to do; but one senses...
...Diego-based Stars & Stripes '87, skippered by Dennis Conner, who does not want to be remembered only as the man who lost in 1983, and America II, sponsored by the New York Yacht Club, which previously defended the Cup. By the end of the grueling four-month test of skill and technology, an estimated $150 million will have been spent by all hands to determine where America's Cup spends the next three years...