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...suppliers may have been selling looted works. A former museum official says the museum did not buy anything it "knew or strongly suspected came from an illicit source." The Times also reported that the trust's president, Barry Munitz, has had the Getty spring for such perks as first-class plane tickets, yacht rentals and a Porsche SUV (which he reportedly directed should have "the biggest possible sunroof"). Because the Getty is a nonprofit institution, taxpayers would be underwriting his airline legroom, and the California attorney general is investigating the spending...
...turned into a leading economic, scientific and educational hub in the United States as it is today within such a short time span,” Khai said, according to a transcript of his remarks. “That question has somehow been answered through...the perfect links between first-class universities and state-of-the-art technology on the one side and business investment on the other...
...unbeknownst to the country at the time, Lincoln was a towering political genius--not because he had mastered the traditional rules of the game, but because he possessed a remarkable array of emotional strengths that are rarely found in political life. He had what we would call today a first-class emotional intelligence...
Carlin's tenure, one of the briefest in history, was abbreviated by a need for more forceful management. Said Board Chairman John McKean: "The governors did lose confidence in Mr. Carlin. We think we can do better." Helped by increases in all postal rates, including a boost in first-class stamps from 20 to 22 last February, the service ran a $479 million surplus in the final quarter of 1985 and was carrying more mail than ever, 140 billion pieces to 73.8 million businesses and households last year. Carlin, though, was seen as cut from the old post-office mold...
Critics warn that Lehman's so-called forward strategy would be as doomed as the Charge of the Light Brigade. "The carrier battle group is not going to do very well against the air defenses of a first-class power armed with cruise-missile-carrying submarines and surface ships, Backfire bombers and oceangoing surveillance," says Robert Komer, a former top Defense Department official who is now a consultant with the Rand Corporation in Washington. "The triumph of the carrier was in World War II. We made the same mistake back then when we concentrated on battleships at first. The Japanese...