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While the goal of bribery is the same in Asia, the style is often very different. In Malaysia, aspiring foreign businessmen reward government officials by making use of the Malaysian mania for gambling. A common approach is to invite a minister or government official for an afternoon of golf, bet...

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

For centuries the domes have served as a source of cheap table salt. In Louisiana, salt miners have carved out huge underground caverns. The domes act as traps for oil and natural gas, which collect in neighboring rock in cracks and fissures created by the upthrust of the salt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hideaways for Nuclear Waste | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Neither is shocked to learn that a brilliant young pianist has killed himself out of unrequited love for Genia, or that Friedrich has been gallivanting with the wife of a mutual friend. Each is slightly chagrined by the booby traps set by their own hearts and in the hearts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: La Valse | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

O Crimson, you are the woman I desire but can never possess, who traps me but does not fulfill me, who makes me hate and love, who is burned into my brain for no damn good reason in the world except that nothing else is, and because, after all, she...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 14 Plympton St. | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

In his White House post, Anderson is expected to produce policies that will probably do more to contract than expand Government. A member of the conservative Hoover Institution who once served as special presidential assistant in the Nixon White House, Anderson is an expert on welfare. He argues that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking and Choosing | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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