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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair of politicians just nominated by a national convention, and there was little doubt about which man thought he was running at the head of the ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Savers' Bonanza | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

White House staffers could scarcely attend to preparations for the summit meetings, so besieged were they by calls from would-be banqueters. "People will kill for a ticket to the state dinner," declared one amused businessman. Sighed a senior White House official: "If we invited everyone who claims an undeniable right to come, we'd have to hold the damn thing in the Capital Center"?a reference to Washington's 19,000-seat sports arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Teng's Great Leap Outward | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day. For hours they huddle and haggle around a group of video monitors set up on the floor of the burgeoning American Real Estate Exchange (AMREX). Across the screens flash capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Property | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...been a money loser. Yet people in towns and cities that benefit from the service have made their will felt on Capitol Hill. Government subsidies have steadily swelled, reaching $779 million in the last fiscal year, or about $2 in federal funds for every $1 taken in at Amtrak ticket windows. Insisting that Amtrak will have to improve its management and save money, OMB proposed that the subsidy be cut to $634 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hit-List Sampler | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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