Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given two years' probation for drug possession and fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. "I thought it was probably the end of my career," he says. But out of the scandal and distortions he salvaged...
...them and deciding who should pay. Instead of an individual doctor seeing his regular patients in the privacy of his office, the typical encounter now occurs in the thick of a vast corporate hierarchy that monitors every decision and may weigh in against it. Marketing medicine has become very big business...
While the rest of the U.S. economy is still creaking forward, the recession monitor is flashing yellow in Detroit. The reckoning was postponed for months by the Big Three's inveterate optimism, which kept assembly plants cranking out cars as though nothing were wrong, and by Detroit's ever sweetening sales incentives. But by the end of the year's second quarter, evidence of a reversal was clearly at hand: during the first six months of 1989, total car sales in the U.S. fell 7.2% from last year's first half, to 5.1 million...
...quickly. But instead of taking advantage of that, American makers raised their prices along with them," says Ron Tonkin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. This year buyers can anticipate yet another round of increases, ranging from 4% to 7% on 1990 models. To reduce sticker shock, the Big Three renewed incentive programs earlier this month, offering as much as 10% off basic prices. But such come-ons are losing their potency...
...really think its all that hot," said Obediah R. Edwards '90, a native of Jackson, Miss. "Everybody keeps making a big deal about the heat...