Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHICH leads back to the Daily News. The News has a market too, and that it its biggest asset--and problem. The people who read the Daily News are, for the most part, the stable, ethnic families who live in New York's outer boroughs--the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For years, this represented a solid constituency, and the News served it well, with pungent, readable prose, catchy headlines and cranky, right-wing editorials. And the public responded; "Da Nooz," as it is popularly known, achieved the largest circulation of any paper in American history, selling 2.3 million...
While the voters worry about recession, they do not hold the President responsible. Asked to what extent they blame Reagan for the recession, 39% said "not at all." Another 33% blame him "only a little." Reagan is clearly his Administration's chief asset. Asked to choose which words or phrases best describe the President, 85% of voters surveyed agree that he is "a likable person," 75% that he is "hard working," 71% that he "handles crises well" and is "a strong leader." Fewer voters, but still more than half, say he has "sound economic ideas...
...misbehave unless you paid 'em extra. And if you misbehaved, there was old TJ Hournoy-the town's lean, mean sheriff- to set you straight or th'ow you out. Why, 'most everybody in La Grange thought Edna's was a real community asset. Put that town...
...David Stockman survives in the Reagan Administration, it probably won't be because of the damage-limiting support he got from two conservative newspaper columnists. On David Brinkley's new ABC show, George F. Will predicted that "Stockman will come out of this as an enhanced asset" because the man who could testify one way to Congress and talk another way to a journalist friend who quoted him in the Atlantic Monthly had shown himself "open to evidence." Try telling that to a Congressman whose vote turned on believing Stockman's knowing deceptions the first time around...
...raising room prices by an average of 20% have many resorts managed to stay in business. The area's real estate boom, which doubled the price of an average one-family house between 1978 and 1980, has virtually stopped dead. Even the environment, long the region's most attractive asset, is showing signs of wear. Decades of economic growth threaten to outstrip the water supply; water is occasionally rationed in some parts of the area. "We're at a crossroads," says Jane Cousins, a leading Miami real estate agent. "No city in the world has ever had happen...