Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS realization first struck me when I told my sister, who's still in high school in Kentucky, that I was going to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game. Kentucky is a state that's big on sports, but the Harvard-Yale game?! She looked at me as if I'd lost my bearings, as if I'd suddenly announced that I'd voted for George Bush...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner from a bulky 11.2 kg (30 lbs.) to a 0.75-kg (2-lb.) device dubbed the Dustbuster. Tandy and Apple Computers put the power of a room-size computer into something resembling a television-typewriter and created an industry worth $75 billion a year...
...brought blessed relief to a few careers. For the Kansas-born Alley, "this is my big blockbuster. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, I'm clicking my heels." Travolta, back on top after years of languishing, says the movie "makes people happy. It makes them feel good about having a family. Men tell me, 'You're giving me lessons in how to be a dad.' Women say, 'Will you be my husband?' I gotta tell you, it thrills me to pieces." It thrills Hollywood too. The town is always pleased to welcome a baby with such a humongous silver...
...big day for black candidates, Wilder garners just enough white votes to win a narrow victory. His crossover strategy: soft-pedal race and stress abortion rights. -- Why both sides are downplaying a U.S. payment to Iran. --Kitty and Mike Dukakis suffer a nightmare year...
BUSINESS: The Big Three automakers face harder going...