Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proportions. His memoir, Iacocca, has stayed at the top of best-seller lists for almost five months, moving out of bookstores for a while at a rate of 15,000 copies a day. "The book's popularity reaches across all social strata, in all regions of the country," says Bernard Rath, president of the American Booksellers Association. Indeed, its publisher says that Iacocca has just become the best- selling nonfiction hardcover in history: more than 1.5 million copies are in print.* Hundreds of new devotees write to Iacocca each week, more than 25,000 during the past five months, often...
...With a circulation of 2 million, U.S. News runs a distant third behind TIME (U.S. circ. 4.4 million) and Newsweek (2.8 million). Ad pages dipped slightly last year, but revenues rose 8%, to $101 million. One sure change will be the magazine's look: Zuckerman has hired Designer Walter Bernard, who worked with Coffey on new graphics for the Post last fall, to restyle U.S. News...
...reopened late last week, no new runs started. Generally, customers came in only to get walking-around money. At the Savings One Association in Dresden, a longtime customer deposited $15,000 as a show of support. Said Helen Mershon, a teller at the Southern Ohio Savings Association in St. Bernard: "Some of our customers just came in to say hello...
...think we will see a swing away from mastectomies," predicted Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who headed the study, though he conceded that "old ways die hard." Indeed, many surgeons argue that until ten-year results are available, the case for lumpectomy will remain unproved...
...voice is assured, unequivocal; the speaker wears a white lab coat, the mantle of medical authority. New technologies, intones New York City Obstetrician Bernard Nathanson, "have convinced us beyond question that the unborn child is simply another member of the human community. Now, for the first time," he continues, "we have the technology to see abortion from the victim's vantage point. We are going to watch a child being torn apart, dismembered, disarticulated, crushed and destroyed by the unfeeling steel instruments of the abortionist...