Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher, 61, had chosen June 11 as polling day to ride an evident swelling of Conservative Party strength. When she made the decision to take the country to the ballot box 13 months before the end of her five-year term, her party held a 13% lead over Labor in the polls. By the time the campaign got under way last week, the margin had shrunk, with polls showing the Conservatives at around 42% to Labor's 33%. The Alliance hovered...
...gainers from Mystery's mystery? The prizewinners, obviously -- and the De Laurentiis organization, which hopes to find a few extra million in box-office revenues among customers who take up the unusual challenge...
...Reed, 48, who has been Citicorp's chairman since 1984, the daring new policy highlights his emergence as the country's most influential banker (see box). By making such a turnabout on the loans, Reed is moving out of the shadow of his predecessor and mentor, Walter Wriston, who was largely responsible for Citicorp's eightfold expansion between 1967 and his retirement. Wriston was also the premier spokesmen for the go-go lending policies of U.S. banks in the 1970s. Even though to some extent Reed's current action repudiates his former boss's strategy, most bankers think Wriston would...
...Saturday Night Fever that at a celebrity auction he bought the % white suit John Travolta wore in the film. They rarely socialize with each other and never sit together at screenings: Siskel is typically near the back, Ebert farther down the aisle, usually munching from a box of Good & Plenty...
...Part of its affinity with the theatrical provinces is financial. Although there are occasional commercial ventures, the off-Broadway scene, like the regionals, tends to be dominated by nonprofit companies sustained through donations. The bond is also aesthetic. The nonprofit troupes usually measure success artistically rather than at the box office and eagerly nurture esoteric work -- chamber musicals, offbeat new plays, quirky revivals...