Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always been accused of fragility. Its success, some say, rode on the shoulders of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the 80s and Michael Jordan in the 90s, and the presence of these superstars kept a veil over deeper structural problems...
...teaches the technique in the Miami studio he co-owns, is working on his doctorate in physical therapy and plans to write his thesis on the effects of Pilates on the spine. His aging boomer clients who grunted their way through the no-pain-no-gain workouts of the '80s are turning to the regimen as welcome therapy. Anderson has observed, for example, that knee muscles out of whack because of a trauma experienced years earlier "can be retrained and the process of degeneration significantly decreased...
Fast forward to the early '80s. Now defunct Coleco, an electronic-toy company, noticed that unique, arty dolls made in Georgia and first sold at fairs had developed celeb cache. Amy Carter and Burt Reynolds were seen with them. Real People did a segment (bonus points if you remember host Sarah Purcell). Coleco began aggressively pushing the Cabbage Patch dolls--it sent them directly to reporters, a relatively new technique. Of course the Cabbage Patch Kids eventually sold well (more than $700 million) because kids liked them. But the adult hook--reporters thought the dolls looked "traditional," like the ones...
...Tisch, who will step down as CEO of Loews Corp. by year's end. Shareholders may wish he had stepped down sooner, given his errant attempts to time the market over the past two years. Tisch, a contrarian, is smarter than most. After oil prices receded in the early '80s, his company bought oil tankers and drilling rigs at scrap-metal prices and later sold them for a tenfold gain. But he's lost big betting the company's cash against the Standard & Poor's 500, and its stock has suffered as a result...
...other words, Java could cause Microsoft to end up looking a lot like IBM in the '80s--beleaguered by years of antitrust action but usurped only when a new revolution in computing took hold. The rise of the personal computer cost Big Blue its overwhelming dominance. Will Java do the same to Big Bill? The jury's still out on that one, although the release of Java 1.2 this week might help silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs...