Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Look out of your hotel window and see minarets from the days of Muslim rule, or great silent stands of pine; turn on the box and see minarets, pines, skiers and Jim McKay. For the athletes, this turbulent and beautiful place cannot be allowed to become more than a peripheral strangeness, to be shut out with ease or with difficulty, according to temperament. For the skaters, ice is ice, if it is cooled to the right temperature and the East European judges are not too hostile. For the skiers, the runs are slightly tamer than World Cup racecourses usually...
Last year ABC and Westinghouse sold their jointly owned Satellite News Channels for $25 million to Ted Turner's Cable News Network. Two additional firms, Showtime and The Movie Channel, merged last September in hopes of offering stiffer competition to Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, the industry leader...
...million football stadium in Odessa, Texas, rises Mecca-like above the flatlands. It has seating for 19,032 people, parking for 4,756 cars, and boasts a press box and a booth for coaches. The playing field, 18 ft. below ground level, is topped with AstroTurf. This stadium was not designed for the Cowboys or the Oilers. It is for two high school teams: the Permian Panthers and their crosstown rivals, the Odessa Bronchos. The head coach at Permian earns $43,000 a year, a whole lot more than the average Permian teacher's salary of about...
...star quarterbacks, the Establishment came around to the wisdom of merger. Whether or not he was more capable than Pete Rozelle, Davis became the odd commissioner out, and a man does not go from czar back to coach. Al took his place in the owner's box, but the game plans continue to be smudged with his fingerprints. Now and then, he also enjoys booting Rozelle around courtrooms...
...most successful players in the new-issue market is Arthur Rock, 57. During the past quarter of a century, he has compiled an extraordinary record of picking new companies and helping them grow into profitable giants (see box). In addition, he has become the cornerstone of the Silicon Valley investment community, where many of America's new industries are now taking shape. By investing money in dozens of companies, Rock has built a personal fortune of at least $200 million...