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...there: "Lavish entertainments with women-that is very effective." In the booming industrial megalopolis of Sao Paulo, a favorite spot to nurse along a deal is La Licorne, a discreetly mirrored nightclub with a striptease show, where call girls cost $120 a night, and foreign businessmen pick up the tab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...part of the commercial creditors, who have little choice but to defer payment on the Polish notes now falling due. Poland has no substantial assets in the West that could be seized in the case of a default. Nor could the Soviets be counted on to pick up the tab. As one Parisian financier put it: "There are conditions under which the amounts involved become so considerable that the debtor actually holds the creditor in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Timely Bailout | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

While the First Lady furtively planned a dinner dance -standard Reagan black tie, 100 guests, a tab running well into five figures-a few enterprising White House staffers devised a surprise of their own for the President's 70th birthday. They sprang it in the Oval Office, just as Reagan was about to receive a bipartisan group of Congressmen. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Senator Paul Laxalt and Representatives Jim Wright and Robert Michel suddenly found themselves making their entrance with Nancy Reagan and a giant cake standing 8 ft. tall on its platform. "I'd like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Organizers hope that half the tab for the Inauguration will be covered by ticket receipts for the balls and receptions. But the $4.2 million overhead, including salaries for 400 of the 3,400 Inaugural committee staffers, will be raised from the largest offering of souvenirs ever. A 14-page brochure of commemoratives, mailed to millions of Americans, lists copies of a Frederick Remington bronze at $1,875 per, a porcelain "Nancy Reagan rose" for $650, a set of highball glasses for $35, even pieces of wood from the reviewing stand encased in Lucite for $28. Inaugural auto license plates, valid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An $8 Million Shindig | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...energy-consuming countries will be serious. West Germany's oil bill will climb $3 billion from this year's $30 billion, and Japan figures that it will be paying out another $5 billion on top of 1980's $60 billion. In the U.S. the oil tab will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bali High for Oil Prices | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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