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- <text id=90TT2875>
- <title>
- Oct. 29, 1990: Generous Retiree Of The Week
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 35
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- <p> GENEROUS RETIREE OF THE WEEK: EVERARD BIERER
- </p>
- <p> The 84-year-old former Pan Am pilot and stock-market
- investor tried to get his fellow retirees to pony up $1 million
- to help save the struggling airline. When no one would chip in,
- Bierer wrote his own check for $400,000, which the company will
- use to buy pilot-training computers.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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