Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronicled the stunning make-over of the Soviet Union. For Blackman, who arrived in 1987 after 17 years in Washington, delving into Gorbachev's odd combination of internal imbroglios and dynamic foreign policy has proved the opportunity of a lifetime. Says Blackman: "For a reporter today, Moscow is the big rock-candy mountain. There's a story on every street corner." Last month she and Kohan scoured the country to report TIME's special issue on the "new" Soviet Union. Shevardnadze called it a "fitting title." The 3,000 copies of the magazine available in Moscow and Leningrad sold...
Another concern is that agencies may be getting too big to manage. Fast- growing and profitable Saatchi & Saatchi stunned Wall Street two months ago with the news that for 1989 its earnings will decline for the first time in 19 years. Sorrell insists that he will encounter no such obstacles. But first he will have to win the fight for Ogilvy, which is likely to seek higher bidders. Among Sorrell's possible rivals for Ogilvy: Japan's Dentsu and the U.S. firms Interpublic and Young & Rubicam. Sorrell may not be the only ad mogul who still thinks that bigger...
...Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve years. "As long as you have a basic bedrock, a strong system of values, you should be big enough to incorporate both cultures. And I think these people have a very sound sense of who they are, tied up with family and community...
...temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...
Frances Lear was a feisty child, a frustrated housewife and finally a divorcee with big money. With it, she is trying to free her female agemates from the youth cult...