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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-end loss back to $1 billion. The company aims to return to profitability next year. And within three years, Citicorp plans to reduce its Third World debt portfolio by about one third, or $5 billion. The bank intends to sell some of the loans at a discount and transform others through so-called debt-for-equity swaps, in which the loan becomes an investment in the borrower country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citicorp Breaks Ranks | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

WHEN IT CAME to raping and pillaging the works of others, no 20th-century playwright could hold a candle to Bertolt Brecht. The idiosyncratic pinko playwright ranged far and wide in his search for material to transform into his own dramas. He rivaled Shakespeare, the literary grave-robber supreme, in his audacious choice of sources. Twenties cinema, 18th century musicals, Renaissance history, Jack London stories; in Brecht's hands they all became the stuff of his proletarian "epic" theater...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Good Woman of Serban | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...grew up during the '60s and '70s, I don't recognize these as the liberal and humanistic values that were impressed upon us as the way to transform America into a more tolerant and livable society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy II | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...election pledge not to impose new taxes." Nakasone retorts, somewhat lamely, that the long list of goods and firms exempt from the measure qualifies it as merely a "medium-sized" new tax, not the "large-scale"levy that he had promised to avoid. The opposition has vowed to transform a set of local elections, to be held in April, into an informal national referendum on the sales tax -- and Nakasone's leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Whiff of Blood In the Water | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...took the Crimson's first-line center, who had never won a tournament at Harvard or in high school, only 10 minutes to transform a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 lead. First, Bourbeau banged in a power-play goal at 1:59 to tie the score. Then he notched another four minutes later to push the Crimson in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

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