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...THOSE NAUGHTY EIGHTIES. The John DeLorean-Stealth Bomber-Dynasty-Gordon Gekko-Material Girl-Black Monday-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-SDI-Ivan Boesky-Trump Tower-Trump Palace-Trump Castle decade. The decade of Nancy Reagan's $200,000 china, the Pentagon's $640 toilet seat, the country's $200 billion budget deficits. A shamelessly materialistic decade. An irresponsible decade. A morally bankrupt decade...
...KNOW that the United States is in pretty bad shape, even compared to the rest of the world. The earth has crumbled a little during the beginning of the 1990s. The Berlin Wall isn't even rubble anymore. The Soviet Union is gone. Donald Trump can't meet his mortgage payments. All of these monumental developments seem to have made their mark on the 1992 Olympic Games...
...Donald Trump's jet is gone, his yacht repossessed, his casinos are ailing, but he still has plenty of financial advice. Anybody care to listen? . . . The art market collapsed after its 1980s hysteria. Old masters still fetch a fortune, but the products of hustlers like Julian Schnabel have fallen off the wall . . . L.A. Gear, the trendy sneaker outfit that not long ago talked of whipping Reebok and Nike, has proved that when it comes to athletic shoes, fashion is fleeting . . . Louisiana voters were spared the ex-Klansman and instead got the twice-indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former...
...things symbolized the high-flying empire of Donald Trump better than the northeastern shuttle that bears his name. Last week USAir reached a deal to fly and possibly purchase the airline. "I loved it," confesses Trump about his airline. "But the world's changed a lot. We're absolutely in a depression." Trump had stopped making interest payments on the shuttle, which he bought in 1989. As a result, bankers have been trying to find someone else to operate it. While details of the deal still need to be pounded out, Trump can at least look forward to some freedom...
...Smith is no Donald Trump. He is widely described as a generous philanthropist who shies away from public attention...