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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the biggest meet of their season. They come here and really want to run this meet," Horner said...
Another drawback has been the cost. Home-banking customers pay up to $144 a year for the service, far more than the average household spends on the checks and stamps used to pay bills. But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine...
...CAPTION: BIGGEST HOME BANKERS
...repo men are working overtime. Paul Lamoureux, a Detroit repossessor, is now pulling in 120 cars a month, compared with 80 a year ago. General Motors Acceptance Corp., the biggest U.S. auto lender, repossessed 2.1% of its customers' cars in the nine months ending Sept. 30, which was 25% more than during all of 1987. One reason for the upsurge in bad loans is that auto lenders have gone after riskier customers, among them first-time car buyers and recent college graduates. Another problem is the longer term of today's auto loans: typically 48 or 60 months, instead...
Jordan's appeal shines through on the bottom line: he may be the biggest draw in professional sports. Since he entered the NBA after helping the U.S. basketball team win the Olympic gold medal in 1984, the association's gross revenues have nearly doubled, to $300 million, and average attendance is up . nearly 4,000 seats a game, to 13,420. At home the Bulls sold out more games over the past 18 months than they had during their entire 22-year history. In a sport that too often becomes sheer drudgery -- the season begins around Halloween...