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Such corporate giants as AT&T, Shearson Lehman Hutton and Toyota are catching a ride on the golf cart. Prizes offered by the corporate sponsors of Professional Golfers' Association tournaments are expected to top $63 million this year, up from $31 million four years ago. Says Gee Winands, advertising manager for Sunkist Growers, which annually earmarks about $200,000 for the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour: "We get brand-name exposure by sponsoring the 'Quiet Please' paddles. Every time they hold them up, well, you can't get that kind of exposure from regular advertising." Corporations love golf, says Susan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Seventh Day He Played | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...confines of the Tokyo stock market? In what appears to be the first direct hostile raid on a Japanese company by a foreigner, T. Boone Pickens disclosed last week, the Texas-based corporate raider has accumulated a 20% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a key supplier of car parts to Toyota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKEOVERS - -: T. Boone's Tokyo Fling | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Iranian passenger jet last July, killing all 290 passengers and crew members. Eight months later, his wife was driving to her job as a fourth- grade teacher at the elite La Jolla Country Day School. As she paused for a red light, Rogers heard a bang in her Toyota van; she leaped out, unharmed, just before the vehicle burst into flames. Investigators believe a terrorist pipe bomb was placed in the van in retaliation for the downing of the Iranian airliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exile of Sharon Rogers | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...days after Revell's warning in Washington, Sharon Rogers, wife of U.S. Navy Captain Will Rogers III, was driving alone through San Diego on her way to her job as a schoolteacher. As her white Toyota van was stopped for a red light, a bomb exploded from underneath. Just before the vehicle burst into flames, Mrs. Rogers jumped out, shaken but unharmed. The van was gutted by the blast. Shards of metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs Across the Ocean? | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...Kentucky go-getter, who says she likes winning more than just competing, traveled around the world to "sell the state" to foreign companies. She lured Toyota, the largest Japanese company in North America, to Kentucky, creating 4500 new jobs and a $1 billion investment for the state. More than 400 new industries opened during her term, and more than 4000 companies expanded with the help of government financing...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: From Kentucky to Kennedy School, Former Governor Mixes Family, Job | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

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