Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where the New Kids reign...
...stop with the Trump shuttle? With the monstrous amount of cash in the endowment, Harvard could become the most feared corporate raider since Trump himself. We could buy the Holiday Inn chain and refurbish the rooms with blocked- in fireplaces, extra-- long beds, and light fixtures that resemble giant glowing alka-seltzer tablets...
...issue assumed an air of militance by reading period, when the Women's Alliance and other campus activists joined with MSA and council members to form a "human chain" around University Hall during a full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Among the chants at that May rally--held just a month after the 20th anniversary of the 1969 student takeover of University Hall--was "FAS, don't stall, next time we'll be in U. Hall...
Oshman's, a Houston-based sporting-goods chain, has a shop in Harajuku that sells everything from $320 Eddie Bauer jackets to Hawaiian surfboards at $785 each. Only about 30% of Oshman's goods are made in the U.S., but the feeling in the store is as relentlessly American as Beach Boys music and suntan lotion...
...radio people are more intimidated, and it shows in their reporting." In some cases, darker forces than fear may be at work. A small radio network, Radial 2000, was listed among the business interests of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Bogota Mafia superchief who is wanted by authorities. Another small chain, Grupo Radial Colombiano, was believed to be owned until recently by the Cali cartel. Such hints of corruption are uncommon. "In general," says columnist Santos, "the press has been spared economic penetration by drug traffickers...