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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he announced last January that he planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: GE Provides a Peacock? | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

When President Habib Bourguiba married Wassila Bent Muhammad Ben Ammar in 1962, the Tunisian press called it a "love match." Over the years, the pair had frequent clashes, after which she would depart the presidential palace for extended sulks abroad. One such absence was expected to end early this month on the occasion of Bourguiba's 83rd birthday, but Wassila, now 74, failed to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: Bourguibas Go Splitsville | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...During his stopover there, Jenco also received a call from Vice President George Bush, who was in Frankfurt at the beginning of a ten-day trip to the Middle East. Bush had hoped to remain in West Germany for Jenco's arrival but in the end felt obliged to depart as scheduled for Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East End of a Priest's Ordeal | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...week's end the press began to depart, but not everyone was happy. "None of you will ever come back," predicted one hotel clerk. He shook his head sorrowfully, then brightened. "That is, unless someday Communist guerrillas take over Trinidad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia High Aims, Low Comedy | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

After graduation, Cliff Sheehan may depart Harvard, but he will leave a legacy of records and respect behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliff Notes | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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