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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Preview and Pro Football: The Professor's 1982 Guide to Winning, says that entirely separate staffers put together the magazines which sport identical formats. "I'm the only one that knows what both the left and the right hand are doing," he says. Yet, some of each magazine's content would suggest otherwise. The Professor, who is actually publisher Edward C. Horowitz, concludes his analysis of the Detroit Lions by saying, "Only nine players, of the 55 on the roster, remain from the pre-Clark era." Too coincidentally, Gary Austin's supposedly separate analysis similarly ends. "With only nine...
Sharon Otten, 40, an apparel saleswoman in Anaheim, Calif, knows a good deal when she sees one. When she discovered an automobile dealer's coupon in the Orange County Yellow Pages offering $100 off the price of a new or used car, she was not content to let her fingers do the walking. Instead, Otten went from door to door, besieging relatives, friends and strangers to give her the coupons from their phone books. She even got one from her mother-in-law. When she had collected 91, she offered them to Dealer Scott Nowling after bargaining with...
...pizza waste, made up of excess flour, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste and meat particles, backed up in Wellston's sewage-treatment plant. The sludge filled one of two 250,000-gal. holding tanks and began to flow into the other. The waste, high in acid content, could not be buried in its gooey form, and the city lacked the equipment to deal with the problem. Says City Safety Director Richard Devlin: "We knew we were running out of time...
...shows, this one will be entirely staffed by journalists who specialize in business news, including some of the best in the field, and will be broadcast from a set that is supposed to duplicate the atmosphere of a Wall Street trading room. "Our emphasis will be on credibility and content," says James C. Crimmins, 48, the TV producer who created the program. "Our format will be business insiders talking to insiders." Sample segments: corporate strategy, high technology, currency hotline...
...Thomson, a pale, pretty brunet, who lives with him in his unprepossessing apartment and at their 41-acre farm in upstate New York, managing the household. He unwinds with his fruit juice, diet soda and candy bars, and can get by on as little as four hours' sleep, content, as always, to study another score...