Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many in the industry, profits have melted under the costs of these incentives. They fell 24% in 1996--dropping 300% from the mid-1980s--and remained flat last year, pounded by a wave of delinquencies as consumers maxed out their debt. "The credit-card free-for-all has come back to haunt the industry," says Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research. To stanch the southern flow of profits, card issuers are seeking to edge up their income by retrenching on offers and charging penalties, new fees and higher rates...
...loss of that direct profit is only part of the damage NBC will suffer as a result of Seinfeld's departure. Starting in the early 1980s, the network has dominated Thursday nights with programs like Family Ties, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Hill Street Blues and LA Law. For the past five years, Seinfeld has been the keystone of the network's Thursday lineup, which now includes Friends and ER, two other huge hits. The habit viewers have of watching NBC on Thursdays is one of the network's greatest assets, but with no Seinfeld to watch, the audience may fall...
...look back at Chinese students coming to the U.S., there's a long history," he says. "After 1949, there were no students until the beginning of the 1980s, when China under Deng started economic reforms...
Looking at Microsoft's history, there is reason to be concerned about its business strategy. Gates went on record in the late 1980s saying Microsoft should control every aspect of the software industry...
...Amsterdam Theater When it opened in 1903, it was a showplace on New York City's 42nd Street. In the bump and grind of the years after, both the street and the theater saw hard times. By the 1980s, the New Amsterdam was a wreck. Now, after a wizardly revitalization by Hugh Hardy, one sponsored by the Walt Disney Co., it's back in all its rose-bowered, peacocked, multichromed, Art Nouveau glory...