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...Hampshire victory, finishing fourth in South Dakota with 10% and winning the Feb. 23 Maine caucuses with a puny margin over none other than Jerry Brown. Nonetheless, he pulled in enough cash after New Hampshire to launch a five-state advertising blitz last week. Tsongas was outspending the more affluent Clinton in Maryland, where the former Massachusetts Senator seems to have his best chance of showing he can win outside New England...
Randy and Betty Hyatt may not realize it, but their two-story ranch house in Cerritos, Calif., is a high-tech battleground. The Hyatts, along with 58,000 other residents of this affluent Los Angeles bedroom community, are testing a futuristic cable-television service that is years ahead of conventional systems. Linked by 2,500 miles of hair-thin optical fiber, the network not only offers 78 channels of TV but also lets subscribers browse through the Sears catalog, check their bank accounts and select from a large menu a movie of their choice anytime they want. Perhaps most surprising...
Another problem is that Tsongas lacks the money to advertise as often as his rivals. Affluent Greek Americans who normally contribute heavily to their own have been holding back. "The Greek money is frozen," Tsongas concedes. With ! his frail treasury, his need to concentrate on New Hampshire and his lack of a national network, Tsongas has been unable to do much spadework outside New England. A victory in New Hampshire would solve his anonymity problem, but even that boost would leave him struggling desperately when the action moves to the South...
Classic lines such as Cunard, now 150 years old, continue to cater to the older, more affluent customers seeking highly personalized service. Besides its regular transatlantic and international cruises, Cunard has two luxury yachts, the Sea Goddess I and II, with only 116 berths each for cruises costing $10,000 for a week's holiday for two. "On the Sea Goddess, it's like being an invited guest on a yacht," says Ronald Santangelo, senior vice president. "If you get up at 3 a.m. and wander out to the hot tub and would like to have caviar and a bottle...
...predominantly black sport. The Celtics were a team with tentacles reaching deep into the league's burgeoning corporate structure. They were a team with major white stars, a statistically astounding racial balance, and an administrative army of safe, white faces speaking directly to fashionable Boston neighborhoods and its affluent distant suburbs...