Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley slows down, everybody, from realtors in Cupertino to restaurant owners along Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose, gets a bad case of the blues. But one of the best barometers of the health of California's computer manufacturers is Doug Young. He manages the Porsche dealership in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sales at his showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other...
Right now, times are bad. Sales are slow, and the hardest hit model is the top-of-the-line 928. Young is doing the once unthinkable: cutting prices. Yet he knows that many of his would-be customers harbor hopes of becoming the latest in a string of entrepreneurs who have made millions by inventing a better microchip. Nobody wants to believe that the fabled region's heydays are gone forever. Says Young: "If the headlines are good for three or four days running and people are feeling optimistic, business picks right up. It's good for at least...
...royal chronicler and the social critic. But unflattering shots of the glamorous and privileged are one thing. How to cast that incinerating gaze upon ordinary people? Not one to swaddle his Western subjects in the gentle conventions of "concerned photography," he has persisted in his relentless inspection of bad skin, weak chins and glassy-eyed expressions. He also has resorted in places to cliched potshots, as in one picture of a nine-year-old cradling a gun. Yet he has given most of the people in these pictures ample means to make their own case, and they...
...dreary network programming than a reinforcement of it. "The good news," says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, "is that children's video is the most likely place to find alternatives to toy-commercial video, which is what network children's TV has turned into. The bad news is that all this stuff on network TV is also in home-video stores, and the promotion budgets are enormous...
...worsened following Alexander's election in 1978 after he persuaded the legislature to impose mandatory prison sentences without parole for such crimes as murder, aggravated rape, armed robbery and arson; about 75 such "Class X" inmates are now in state and county jails. By 1982 conditions had grown so bad that U.S. Judge L. Clure Morton declared the entire system unconstitutional because of overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical legislators...