Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever wonder how much Americans spend on munching hot dogs at football games or buying ski equipment for a winter jaunt? With the aid of the WEFA econometrics firm, a new Times Mirror magazine called Sports inc.: the Sports Business Weekly has compiled a gross national sports product (GNSP). The New York City- based magazine says Americans last year sank $47.25 billion, or more than 1% of total GNP, into sports. That puts sports just below the $49.5 billion motor vehicles industry but well ahead of the $38.9 billion U.S. petroleum and coal business. The GNSP includes estimates of spending...
...filled with jabbering dolls, video villains, electronic spaceships and kiddie camcorders. But many of the latest playthings leave little to the imagination and nothing in the pocketbook. -- The Farmbelt is celebrating a good harvest and a modest recovery, but U. S. agriculture is still too reliant on federal aid. -- Ailing E. F. Hutton is listening -- to potential buyers...
...world of popular music in the last few years seems to have saturated the market with benefit albums. LiveAid, "Sun City", USA for Africa, FarmAid, "That's What Friends Are For" for AIDS, Hands Across America--what's next? One wonders if others, observing the good publicity and massive record sales of Geldof's aid efforts, are not just using charity for self-promotion...
...Afghanistan, Reagan said he would not accept any plan to withdraw Soviet forces that was contingent upon a cutoff of U.S. aid to the Afghan resistance...
Still, the question has to be asked: who was The Big Winner? It certainly wasn't the Duke, with his lemon-sucking face and even sourer responses. He's crazy if he thinks he'll sweep into office with the shrill yelp that aid to the contras is "A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!" Turns out it's forbidden by something called the Rio Treaty--one treaty, at least, which the Soviets don't seem to have violated...