Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When E.F. Hutton talks to its employees these days, they are expected not only to listen but also to take out their crayons. Last week the firm began distributing, at a cost of $50,000, The Hutton Neighborhood Coloring Book and a box of crayons to its 18,500 workers. The purpose is to boost staff morale, which was battered by Hutton's 1985 guilty plea to a check-overdraft scheme and further bruised by the company's $90 million loss last year...
...agriculture and the woefully inadequate service sector. In Moscow and Leningrad, collective farms are beginning to sell produce through their own outlets as well as through the state stores. A parallel development is the appearance of private-enterprise restaurants set up in competition with state-owned eateries (see box). Another flirtation with free enterprise is the new "individual-labor" law that took effect last May. It legalizes a kind of small-scale service business that may be run by an individual or family. Owners of private automobiles, for example, are now allowed to use their cars as taxis during their...
...bucks box score is important not only because it helps fuel a vigorous campaign now and generous TV ads next winter, but also because it is a mark of momentum. In a crowded field that lacks a clear front runner, it is a test of early strength. Dukakis must still show that he can attract money from strangers. Two-thirds of his haul came from Massachusetts. Donors of Greek descent supplied some of the out-of-state money. Biden and Gephardt, by contrast, have built broader financial bases...
Hollywood is happy again. A lot of summer films are making big money; each June weekend brought a new box-office champ. Beverly Hills Cop II, then Predator, then The Witches of Eastwick, then Dragnet. Half a dozen other films are silly-season successes. And so the industry, even as it fretted about a strike threatened by the Directors Guild, entered July with high hopes for the best summer since Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins made the wickets blister...
During 1984, after Congress cut off funds for the contras, North became obsessed with the men he referred to as freedom fighters. He kept a shoe box filled with pictures of contra leaders and talked about how he did not want to lose Nicaragua the way he saw the U.S. lose Viet Nam. North had been in the NSC longer than many of his superiors, and he began to believe in his own indispensability. "Being in the White House is heady," says a colleague. "You start carrying the cross by yourself, and if you don't do it, democracy falls...