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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this issue TIME introduces a new column in the Business section, "World of Business." It is written by London-based contributor Robert Ball, a former TIME correspondent and member of FORTUNE's board of editors. The column reflects the magazine's commitment to covering the increasingly important field of international business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Dec 4 1989 | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Above all, he wanted a Van Gogh. In 1987 he was the underbidder on Sunflowers, which fetched a record $39.9 million at Christie's in London. Then, as underbidder again, he just missed The Bridge at Trinquetaille, which sold for $20.2 million, also at Christie's, a few months later. So when he learned that Irises was coming up at Sotheby's in New York City in November of the same year, he decided to go the limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, rumors about Bond's delay in paying up were spreading through financial circles. Last January an Australian finance company approached an auction house in London with the utterly novel idea of packaging an option on Irises, in the event that Dallhold Investments -- the holding company through which Bond owned the picture -- defaulted. The auction house rejected this proposal. In late 1988 Bond himself reportedly tried to pass off Irises to the New York megadeveloper Donald Trump as partial payment on a $180 million deal for the St. Moritz Hotel. Trump, no collector, said the painting was worth only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead Vol.134, No. 22 NOVEMBER 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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