Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Juan Bautista, the previous owner called himself Sam Andreas and offered free meals to patrons on the premises when a quake of 3.5 or better struck. Becky McGovern, owner of the Mariposa House Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, wants to have an "earthquake festival" along the fault to attract visitors this summer. Some years ago in Hollister, Newspaper Publisher Millard Hoyle suggested an earthquake carnival of his own. It called for, among other things, a macabre ride in a room that "would simulate a five" on the Richter scale. The scheme was turned down...
...loans and savings banks-are in perhaps the shakiest shape of all. Andrew Carron, a Brookings Institution economist, estimates that the 4,000 U.S. thrifts will lose $9 billion between 1981 and 1983, cutting their collective net worth in half, because they are paying high interest rates to attract deposits but collecting low interest on many old mortgage loans. Says New York State Bank Superintendent Muriel Siebert: "I can see 600 to 700 thrifts going down the drain this year, and maybe another 1,100 in 1983." The prospect appears to be causing some people to worry about the safety...
...same level," he says. This means fewer funds to produce or import expensive programs like Brideshead Revisited, Life on Earth and the National Geographic special The Sharks-shows that have brought PBS fresh prestige, ec static reviews and record-breaking ratings. The pool of shows that will attract audiences (and potential subscribers) looks to be drying up just when PBS is be coming a habit for millions of new viewers. "Our audiences have never been greater, and our programs have never been better," claims Christensen. "It is not a coincidence that this year also represents the highest level of federal...
...long. To take up the slack, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS's parent organization, last week announced the allocation of $5 million toward a challenge grant intended to attract a matching amount from new subscribers. This will ease the squeeze by a couple of notches while stations pursue traditional forms of PBS cup rattling like phone-in pledge periods, televised auctions and fund-raising galas, like upcoming previews of the film Annie, which will aid more than 125 PBS affiliates. Other stations are more adventurous: North Dakota Public TV is raising money through legalized gambling parlors. Most radical...
...becoming more and more important, but you don't want to get tacky Dave's approach is slightly different. He runs a squash camp during the summer in Newport. R.I that a lot of top juniors come to. It's not recruiting per se, but he's trying to attract them...