Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more heavyweight property dealers gather together once a month for what they call market day. For hours they huddle and haggle around a group of video monitors set up on the floor of the burgeoning American Real Estate Exchange (AMREX). Across the screens flash capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island...
...Francisco warehouse. He hooked up with Telerate, a computerized bond-listing firm that also supplied him daily with a tabulation of international real estate offerings. With a large assortment of domestic and foreign listings sporting an average price of more than $4 million, AMREX began to interest the serious, big-money traders, who found the system convenient. Says San Francisco Broker Tom Connelly, 31: "AMREX makes our operation a lot more efficient. We're able to look at 1,000 properties in the same time it used to take us to look...
Cynics, of course, might say that TV, where the trend is most visible, has always been one big electronic comic book. But now the comic book heroes are out in the open, and CBS, which has all the big ones, may soon be renamed the Comic Book Supplier...
...became his company's editor in chief at 17. At first he followed the trends of popular movies: if cowboy films were big, he turned out western comics; if crime dramas were packing them in, well, he wrote cops-and-robbers stories. In the early '60s though, Lee got bored and began creating his own characters. The result: superheroes with personality as well as power, saviors who suffered from human frailties...
...big line's scoring punch is the final element in a carefully considered formula for success. When the N.H.L. mushroomed from six to 18 teams a decade ago, most new franchises tried to trade for instant respectability, lavishing huge contracts on fading veterans. But Islander General Manager William Torrey concluded that the future lay in the future: "You can't build a championship club out of someone else's rejects." So the Islanders searched the amateur ranks for talented youngsters and set them to playing cautious, defense-minded hockey until they matured. Says Torrey...