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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...
...later this month. On it he performs in the persona of an alter ego, a fat rapper named Chunky A, whom Hall played as a "guest" on his show last May. He has made a video as Chunky A, now airing on MTV. A movie career, meanwhile, has sprouted almost effortlessly. Last year Hall co-starred with his best pal Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, the No. 2 box-office hit of 1988. Next week he will be back onscreen with Murphy in Harlem Nights...
...managed to improve on a thoroughly inept start. But her campaign still lacks both substance and imagination. Dona Violeta does not discuss issues. She appears. She smiles. She presses flesh. She departs. Her stump speeches are long on teary references to her late husband and short on almost everything else...
...result, domestic manufacturing is soaring. From 1982 to 1988, color television production jumped from 70,000 units a year to 1.3 million, while the output of black-and-white sets increased almost eightfold, to 4.4 million. Refrigerator and car production has also mushroomed, softening Indian resistance to borrowing. That means boom times ahead for a fledgling consumer finance business that, according to J. Rao, Citibank's chief executive officer in India, has skyrocketed from zero to $1 billion in just three years...
Stalin kept only part of the bargain. On Aug. 8, three months after V-E day and only six days before Japan surrendered, the Soviets finally declared war on Tokyo. At almost no cost, Stalin not only got the Japanese islands but also stripped Manchuria of most of its heavy industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West...