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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using its new muscle, the agency became the nation's nanny. An FTC administrative judge challenged Pitching Star Vida Blue's pitches for drinking milk because blacks often have trouble digesting milk. The commission proposed a truth-in-menu rule that might mean, for example, that no restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Grossman hires young, hungry executives and believes in giving them the opportunity to fail. Only if they are willing to take chances, he feels, will they produce ideas. "I cannot ever remember telling a manager, 'Now, you can't do this.' Instead, I might say, 'If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Ideas Are All We Have | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

or about as much as management seemed willing to grant the lesser dancers all together in raises. So bitter were feelings that the company canceled performances, while superstars like Gelsey Kirkland joined the picket line. Last week. Godunov complicated things by abruptly resigning from the A.B.T. before ever dancing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

"Stone walls do not a prison make," said the poet, "nor iron bars a cage." Tell that to petite Brunette Maria-Christina ("Putzi") von Opel, 28, playgirl heiress to a vast German auto fortune. Last week von Opel found herself behind walls and bars facing a ten-year prison term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

He does not mention that this is one of only three seminaries left nationwide. Before the Revolution, for a much smaller population, there were 57.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Completely Loyal to the State | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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