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...this day, Joe is late arriving for work at the gym. He is wrapping his own hands hurriedly. "Eddie? I don't miss Eddie. I don't miss anybody who don't miss me," says Frazier, not unkindly, not really. "Yank died [Yank Durham, Frazier's first trainer as a pro]. I didn't miss Yank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight One More Round | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

When a bank fouls up, an unhappy customer may yank his money and deposit it across the street. Oil-rich Kuwait has done the same thing, only it took $4 billion with it. New York's Citibank had managed investment funds for Kuwait since 1974, putting nearly $4 billion into stocks of about 350 U.S. companies, including AT&T, Atlantic Richfield and Phillips Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: A $4 Billion Bit of Pique | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...Bottom the Assistant Secretary-designate has been isolated and ignored since the day he moved in. Still, the President has no plans to abandon the appointment. "Just because Lefever's philosophy is not compatible with Chuck Percy's," asserts a Reagan aide, "doesn't mean you yank the nomination." Percy reportedly called the White House after the hearings to recommend just that course. Cranston and his fellow Democrats on the committee publicly suggested that Lefever withdraw himself from consideration-and threatened to further probe his links with Nestl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Man for the Rights Job? | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...Yank wins the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Hill | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...wealth effectively, needs a common investment strategy. Hence a more prudent course would be to strengthen internal tional financial institutions. That means using America's still dom inant position on the governing boards of those bodies to improve their ability to tie - and occasion ally yank - the economic strings that must be attached to loans and aid programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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